hǔ
to intimidate
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 虎 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.3751% of movies
2395th most common character in movies
3161st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+552C |
Shuowen | “唬,嗁聲也,一曰虎聲。从口,从虎。” |
Sources
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