hài
terrify
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 駭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to astonish | ||
shocking | ||
to be shocked | ||
universally shocking | ||
dumbstruck |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤrəʔ | heajX | hài | alarmed |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.9542% of movies
3070th most common character in movies
2538th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+99ED |
Shuowen | “駭，驚也。从馬，亥聲。” |
Sources
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