gū
wail
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 瓜 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 呱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
crying sound of child | ||
(onom.) sound of frogs, ducks etc | ||
tip-top | ||
excellent | ||
to gossip |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤa | ku | gū | wail |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.7689% of movies
3267th most common character in movies
3476th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5471 |
Shuowen | “呱，小兒嗁聲。从口，瓜聲。《詩》曰：‘后稷呱矣。’” |
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