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咳

hāi, ké

cough

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

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

亥 sound component

亥  Sound component

hài

  

12th terrestrial branch

Evolution

咳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

咳  

hāi

sound of sighing; (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc) oh; damn; wow

咳  

ké

cough

Most common words with 咳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

咳嗽

to cough

咳

sound of sighing

止咳

to suppress coughing

百日咳

whooping cough

咳痰

to cough up phlegm

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰˤək-s

khojH

kài

cough


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 4.3088% of movies

2417th most common character in movies

2373rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+54B3

Shuowen

“咳，小兒笑也。从口，亥聲。孩，古文咳从子。”


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