xià, hè
scare
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 赫 represents the sound.
Definitions
Most common words with 嚇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to scare | ||
to be really frightened | ||
to threaten | ||
to scare | ||
to frighten |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰˤ<r>ak | xaek | hè | frighten |
*qʰˤ<r>ak-s | xaeH | xià | frighten |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 50.6007% of movies
887th most common character in movies
1466th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5687 |
Sources
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