niàn
recite
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 念 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 54.7493% of movies
781st most common character in movies
477th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5538 |
Shuowen | “唸也。从口，念聲。《詩》曰：‘民之方唸。’” |
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