Chinese Character Wiki

噓

xū

exhale

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

虛 sound component

虛  Sound component

xū

  

void, false

Evolution

噓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
噓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

嘘 (噓) 

xū

exhale; blow out; deep sigh; hiss; praise, flatter; lie; to exhale slowly; to hiss; hush!

Most common words with 噓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

嘘

to hiss

吹嘘

to brag

唏嘘

to sob

嘘声

hissing sound

嘘寒问暖

to pamper

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.6060% of movies

1411th most common character in movies

2973rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

嘘

Unicode

U+5653

Shuowen

“噓，吹也。从口，虛聲。”


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