duō
tremble
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 多 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t-l̥]Ajʔ | tsyhaeX | chǐ | large |
*[t-l̥]ajʔ | tsyheX | chǐ | large |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3231st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+54C6 |
Shuowen | “哆，張口也。从口，多聲。” |
Sources
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