fright

Evolution

虩 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
虩 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
虩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

fright; terrified

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰrak

xjaek

fear


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+8669

Shuowen

“虩,《易》‘履虎尾虩虩’,恐懼。一曰蠅虎也。从虎,聲。”


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