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嘖

zé

interjection of approval or admiration

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

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

責 sound component

責  Sound component

zé

  

responsibility

Evolution

嘖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嘖 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
嘖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

啧 (嘖) 

zé

interjection of approval or admiration; (interj. of admiration or of disgust); to click one's tongue; to attempt to (find an opportunity to) speak

Most common words with 嘖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

啧啧

to click one's tongue

啧

to click one's tongue

啧啧称奇

to be astonished

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.6728% of movies

3272nd most common character in movies

3698th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

啧

Unicode

U+5616

Shuowen

“嘖，大呼也。从口，責聲。謮，嘖或从言。”


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