ā

scold

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

可 sound component

  Sound component

  

able to

Evolution

呵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
呵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

scold; laughing sound; yawn; expel breath; my goodness

 

ā

variant of [ā]

Most common words with 呵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

呵呵

chuckle

Ah!

呵护

to bless

一气呵成

to flow smoothly

乐呵呵

happily

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤaj

xa

scold


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.1554% of movies

1641st most common character in movies

1861st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5475


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