wěn

kiss

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

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

勿 sound component

  Sound component

  

must not

Evolution

吻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
吻 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
吻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wěn

kiss; the lips; coinciding; to kiss; mouth

() 

wěn

variant of [wěn]

Most common words with 吻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

kiss

吻合

to be a good fit

接吻

to kiss

亲吻

to kiss

口吻

tone of voice

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.0748% of movies

1039th most common character in movies

1973rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+543B

Shuowen

“吻,口邊也。从口,勿聲。,吻或从肉,从昬。”


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