silent

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

莫 sound component

  Sound component

  

do not

Evolution

寞 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
寞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

silent, still, lonely, solitary; lonesome

Most common words with 寞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

寂寞

lonely

lonesome

不甘寂寞

unwilling to be left out

落寞

lonely

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3500% of movies

2404th most common character in movies

2601st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5BDE


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