háo

the roaring of wild beasts

Evolution

嘷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嘷 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Definitions

 

háo

the roaring of wild beasts; to howl, to wail, to bawl

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háo

variant of [háo]

Most common words with 嘷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to howl (like a wolf)

狼嗥

wolves howling

鬼哭狼嗥

to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4287th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5637

Shuowen

“嗥,咆也。从口,臯聲。獆,譚長說嘷从犬。”


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