fèi
bark
The sound a dog 犬 makes with their mouth 口
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 吠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to bark | ||
to howl | ||
to bark | ||
alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it's uncommon to see a sunny day |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.bo[t]-s | bjojH | fèi | bark (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0732% of movies
3220th most common character in movies
3426th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5420 |
Shuowen | “吠，犬鳴也。从犬、口。” |
Sources
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