hē
scold loudly
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 可 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 訶
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to scold | ||
Don Quixote | ||
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays | ||
Don Quixote | ||
chebulic myrobalan (Terminalia chebula) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰˤaj | xa | hē | shout, scold |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3687th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A36 |
Shuowen | “訶,大言而怒也。从言,可聲。” |
Sources
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