sneeze

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

疐 sound component

  Sound component

zhì

  

fall

Evolution

嚏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嚏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

sneeze

Most common words with 嚏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

打喷嚏

to sneeze

喷嚏

sneeze

sneeze

阿嚏

to sneeze

嚏喷

to sneeze

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[t]ˤi[t]-s (< *t.lˤ-?)

tejH

sneeze


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4416% of movies

3125th most common character in movies

3897th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+568F

Shuowen

“嚏,悟解气也。从口,疐聲。《詩》曰:‘願言則嚏。’”


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