Chinese Character Wiki

啜

chuài, chuò

sip

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

叕 sound component

叕  Sound component

zhuó

  

to connect, to join together

Evolution

啜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
啜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

啜  

chuài

sip, suck up; sob, weep

啜  

chuò

(literary) to drink; to sip; to sob

Most common words with 啜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

啜

to sip

啜泣

to sob

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰot

tsyhwet

chuò

taste, eat, drink (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4008th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+555C

Shuowen

“啜，嘗也。从口，叕聲。一曰喙也。”


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