ó, é, ò, o
oh? really? is that so?
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 我 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
ó
oh? really? is that so?; oh (interjection indicating doubt or surprise)
é
to chant
ò
oh (interjection indicating that one has just learned sth)
o
sentence-final particle that conveys informality, warmth, friendliness or intimacy; may also indicate that one is stating a fact that the other person is not aware of
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 86.9454% of movies
122nd most common character in movies
1913th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+54E6 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“哦，吟也。从口，我聲。” |
Sources
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