xuān

lively

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

宣 sound component

  Sound component

xuān

  

declare, announce

Definitions

 

xuān

lively, noisy; clamor, talk loudly; clamor; noise

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xuān

variant of [xuān]; old variant of |[xuān]

Most common words with 喧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喧嚣

to clamor

喧闹

noisy

喧哗

hubbub

clamor

喧宾夺主

minor details obscure the main point

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰar

xjwon

xuǎn

clamor, shout


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5057% of movies

3233rd most common character in movies

2778th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+55A7


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