hēi

hey

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

黑 sound component

  Sound component

hēi

  

black

Definitions

 

hēi

be silent, be quiet; hey

Most common words with 嘿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hey

嘿嘿

(onom.) he he

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 77.4788% of movies

194th most common character in movies

2423rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+563F


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