Chinese Character Wiki

虖

hū

to cry

A tiger's 虍 roar 乎; 乎 also provides the pronunciation

Components
虍 meaning component

虍  Meaning component

hū

  

tiger

乎 sound,meaning component

乎  Sound Meaning component

hū

  

interrogative or exclamatory final particle

Evolution

虖 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
虖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
虖 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
虖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

虖  

hū

to cry; to shout; to howl; to exhale; to call; scream of tiger

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

罅

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

滹

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8412th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+8656

Shuowen

“虖，哮虖也。从虍，聲。”


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