interjection used to express surprise

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

巨 sound component

  Sound component

  

large

Evolution

讵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讵 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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interjection used to express surprise; how (interj. of surprise)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5264th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BB5


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