Chinese Character Wiki

吻

wěn

kiss

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 勿 represents the sound. Simplified form of 脗.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

勿 sound component

勿  Sound component

wù

  

must not

Evolution

吻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吻 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
吻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

吻  

wěn

kiss; the lips; coinciding; to kiss; mouth

吻 (脗) 

wěn

variant of 吻[wěn]

Most common words with 吻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

吻

kiss

吻合

to be a good fit

接吻

to kiss

亲吻

to kiss

口吻

tone of voice

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.0748% of movies

1039th most common character in movies

1973rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+543B

Shuowen

“吻，口邊也。从口，勿聲。，吻或从肉，从昬。”


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