Chinese Character Wiki

喟

kuì

heave sigh

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

胃 sound component

胃  Sound component

wèi

  

stomach

Evolution

喟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
喟 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
喟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

喟  

kuì

heave sigh, sigh; to sigh

Most common words with 喟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喟

to sigh

感喟

sighing with emotion

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷʰˤrə[t]-s

khweajH

kuì

sigh

*[k]ʷʰrə[t]-s

khwijH

kuì

sigh


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4423rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+559F

Shuowen

“喟，大息也。从口，胃聲。嘳，喟或从貴。”


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