kǎi, gě
sound of sighing
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 既 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʰˤəp-s | khojH | kǎi | sigh |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5605 |
Shuowen | “嘅,嘆也。从口,既聲。” |
Sources
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