huá

crafty

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
犭 meaning component

  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

is a component form of .

骨 sound component

  Sound component

  

bone

Evolution

猾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
猾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
猾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huá

crafty, cunning, shrewd; deceitful; sly

Most common words with 猾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

狡猾

crafty

sly

老奸巨猾

cunning

奸猾

crafty

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤrut

hweat

huá

disturb, trouble

*[g]ˤrut

hweat

huá

crafty


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.4301% of movies

2516th most common character in movies

3083rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+733E


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