Phonosemantic compound. 氒 represents the sound and 口 represents the meaning.
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernSound component in 7 characters (7 verified)
話 諙 话 活 括 刮 颳
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+20BD1 |
Shuowen | “,塞口也。从口,氒省聲。,古文从甘。” |