éiēiěièi

an exclamation of confirmation

To verbally  confirm  ;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

矣 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

particle of completed action

Evolution

誒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

éi

an exclamation of confirmation; hey (to express surprise)

() 

ēi

hey (to call sb)

() 

ěi

hey (to express disagreement)

() 

èi

hey (to express agreement)

() 

sigh (to express regret)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.7139% of movies

2699th most common character in movies

5528th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A92

Shuowen

“誒,可惡之辭。从言,矣聲。一曰誒然。《春秋傳》曰:‘誒誒出出。’”


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