scold loudly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

可 sound component

  Sound component

  

able to

Evolution

訶 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
訶 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
訶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
訶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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scold loudly, curse, abuse; to scold

Most common words with 訶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to scold

堂吉诃德

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契诃夫

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唐吉诃德

Don Quixote

诃子

chebulic myrobalan (Terminalia chebula)