zé
interjection of approval or admiration
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 責 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 嘖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to click one's tongue | ||
to click one's tongue | ||
to be astonished |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.6728% of movies
3272nd most common character in movies
3698th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5616 |
Shuowen | “嘖,大呼也。从口,責聲。謮,嘖或从言。” |
Sources
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