cry

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

虒 sound component

  Sound component

  

an amphibious beast resembling a tiger with one horn

Evolution

嗁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嗁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

give forth sound, make noise

() 

variant of [tí]

Most common words with 嗁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

哭哭啼啼

to weep endlessly

to cry

啼笑皆非

between laughter and tears

啼哭

to cry

悲啼

plaintive cry

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.lˤe

dej

cry; weep


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9771% of movies

3186th most common character in movies

2913th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+55C1

Shuowen

“嗁,號也。”


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