qì
cry
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 立 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 泣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to weep | ||
to sob | ||
to sob spasmodically | ||
to sob | ||
happy and sad |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-r̥əp | khip | qì | weep |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.5353% of movies
2297th most common character in movies
2449th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6CE3 |
Shuowen | “泣，無聲出涕曰泣。从水，立聲。” |
Sources
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