abruptly

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

盍 sound component

  Sound component

  

what? why not?

Evolution

溘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
溘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

abruptly, suddenly, unexpectedly; suddenly

Most common words with 溘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

溘然

suddenly

suddenly

溘先朝露

the morning dew will swiftly dissipate (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5881st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6E98

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“溘,奄忽也。从水,盍聲。”


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