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狠

hěn

vicious

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

艮 sound component

艮  Sound component

gěn, gèn

  

blunt

Evolution

狠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
狠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

狠  

hěn

vicious, cruel; severely, extreme; ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很[hěn]

Most common words with 狠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

狠

ruthless

狠狠

resolutely

凶狠

cruel

狠心

callous

狠毒

vicious

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 14.2399% of movies

1608th most common character in movies

1654th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+72E0

Shuowen

“狠，吠鬭聲。从犬，艮聲。”


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