sōu

whizzing sound

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

叟 sound component

  Sound component

sǒu

  

old man

Definitions

 

sōu

whizzing sound; (onom.) whooshing; swishing; rustle of skirts

Most common words with 嗖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

swishing

嗖嗖

swishing

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3751st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+55D6


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