jiū

wailing of child

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

秋 sound component

  Sound component

qiū

  

autumn

Evolution

啾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
啾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiū

wailing of child; chirp; (onom.) wailing of child; kiss (Tw)

Most common words with 啾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

chirp

啁啾

chirp

唧啾

(onom.) babble

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4081st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+557E

Shuowen

“啾,小兒聲也。从口,秋聲。”


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