Chinese Character Wiki

嗌

ài

the throat

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

益 sound component

益  Sound component

yì

  

benefit

Evolution

嗌 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
嗌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嗌 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
嗌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

嗌  

ài

the throat; to quarrel, choke

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*q[i]k (dialect: *-ik > *-ek)

'jiek

yì

throat


Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+55CC

Shuowen

“嗌，咽也。从口，益聲。，籀文嗌，上象口，下象頸脈理也。”


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