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唬

hǔ

to intimidate

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 虎 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

虎 sound component

虎  Sound component

hǔ

  

tiger

Evolution

唬 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
唬 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
唬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
唬 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
唬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

唬  

hǔ

to intimidate; to scare; a tiger's roar

Most common words with 唬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

吓唬

to scare

唬

to scare

诈唬

to bluff

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.3751% of movies

2395th most common character in movies

3161st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+552C

Shuowen

“唬，嗁聲也，一曰虎聲。从口，从虎。”


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