dumb

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

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

亚 sound component

  Sound component

  

Asia

Evolution

哑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
哑 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
哑 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

dumb, mute; become hoarse; dumb; mute; hoarse; husky; unexploded (of artillery shell etc)

() 

(onom.) sound of cawing; sound of infant learning to talk; variant of [yā]

Most common words with 哑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

dumb

哑巴

mute

沙哑

hoarse

聋哑

deaf and dumb

哑剧

to mime

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.9404% of movies

2603rd most common character in movies

2368th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+54D1


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