Chinese Character Wiki

喘

chuǎn

pant

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 耑 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

耑 sound component

耑  Sound component

duān, zhuān

  

tip, start, extremity

Evolution

喘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
喘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

喘  

chuǎn

pant, gasp, breathe heavily; to gasp; to pant; asthma

Most common words with 喘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喘

to gasp

哮喘

asthma

喘气

to pant

喘息

to gasp for breath

气喘吁吁

to pant

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tʰ]orʔ

tsyhwenX

chuǎn

to pant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.8831% of movies

2046th most common character in movies

1977th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5598

Shuowen

“喘，疾息也。从口，耑聲。”


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