ǒu

vomit

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

區 sound component

  Sound component

  

area

Definitions

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ǒu

to vomit; annoy, enrage; vomit

Most common words with 嘔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

呕吐

to vomit

vomit

作呕

to feel sick

呕心沥血

to work one's heart out

干呕

to retch

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤ(r)oʔ

'uwX

ǒu

vomit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.2721% of movies

2229th most common character in movies

2855th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+5614


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