sigh in disapproval

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

几 sound component

  Sound component

  

small table

Evolution

叽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
叽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
叽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

sigh in disapproval; take small; grumble

Most common words with 叽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

grumble

叽叽喳喳

(onom.) chirp

叽里咕噜

(onom.) to jabber

哔叽

serge (loanword)

叽哩咕噜

(onom.) to jabber

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.7620% of movies

2812th most common character in movies

3198th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+53FD


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