mò
suddenly
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3160th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9A40 |
Shuowen | “驀,上馬也。从馬,莫聲。” |
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