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呼

hū

breathe, shout

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 乎 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

乎 sound component

乎  Sound component

hū

  

interrogative or exclamatory final particle

Evolution

呼 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
呼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
呼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
呼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

呼  

hū

breathe sigh, exhale; call, shout; to call; to cry; to shout; to breath out; to exhale

呼 (嘑) 

hū

variant of 呼[hū]; to call out

Most common words with 呼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

呼吸

to breathe

呼

to call

招呼

to greet

呼吁

an appeal

呼叫

to shout

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤa

xu

hū

call out, shout

*qʰˤa-s

xuH

hù

call out, shout


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 56.4472% of movies

712th most common character in movies

843rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+547C

Shuowen

“呼，外息也。从口，乎聲。”


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