the sound of the wind

Components
立 sound component

  Sound component

  

stand

風 meaning component

  Meaning component

fēng

  

wind

wind

Evolution

颯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颯 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
颯 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
颯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

the sound of the wind; bleak; melancholy; sound of wind; valiant

Most common words with 颯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

飒飒

soughing

valiant

英姿飒爽

to carry oneself tall

秋风飒飒

the autumn wind is soughing (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4300th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+98AF

Shuowen

“颯,翔風也。从風,立聲。”


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