Chinese Character Wiki

噲

kuài, wèi

swallow

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

會 sound component

會  Sound component

huì, kuài

  

to gather

Evolution

噲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
噲 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
噲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

哙 (噲) 

kuài

swallow, gulp down; greedy; throat; to swallow

哙 (噲) 

Kuài

surname Kuai

哙 (噲) 

wèi

(interjection) hey

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰr[o][p]-s

khwaejH

kuài

comfortable (room)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5981st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

哙

Unicode

U+5672

Shuowen

“噲，咽也。从口，會聲。讀若快。一曰嚵噲也。”


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