yí
exclamation of surprise
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 夷 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.1052% of movies
3071st most common character in movies
3080th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+54A6 |
Shuowen | “咦，南陽謂大呼曰咦。从口，夷聲。” |
Sources
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