shǔn

suck with mouth

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

允 sound component

  Sound component

yǔn

  

allow, permit

Evolution

吮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shǔn

suck with mouth, sip, lick; to suck

Most common words with 吮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to suck

吸吮

to suck in

吮吸

to suck

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.0572% of movies

3277th most common character in movies

3699th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+542E

Shuowen

“吮,欶也。从口,允聲。”


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