guāi

box one's ears

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

國 sound component

  Sound component

guó

  

nation

Definitions

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guāi

box one's ears, slap; to slap; also pr. [guó]