惡 - Dong Chinese dictionary

è, ě, wù

evil

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 亞 represents the sound.

Components

yà

Asia

惡 and 亞 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.惡 /*ʔˤak/, /*ʔˤak-s/
亞 /*ʔˤrak-s/

心 Meaning component

xīn

heart

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

恶 (惡)

evil, wicked, bad, foul; evil; fierce; vicious; ugly; coarse; to harm

恶 (惡)

see 惡心|恶心[ěxīn]

恶 (惡)

wù

to hate; to loathe; ashamed; to fear; to slander

Most common words with 惡

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	恶心	nausea
	邪恶	sinister
	恶	evil
	恶魔	demon
	恶化	to worsen

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

噁

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*ʔˤak	'ak	è	bad, ugly
*ʔˤak-s	'uH	wù	hate (v.)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 66.6026% of movies

533rd most common character in movies

792nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Simplified	恶
Unicode	U+60E1
Shuowen	“惡，過也。从心，亞聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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