Chinese Character Wiki
忽

hū

suddenly

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 勿 represents the sound.

Components
勿 sound component

勿  Sound component

wù

  

must not

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

忽 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
忽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
忽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
忽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

忽  

hū

suddenly, abruptly; neglect; to neglect; to overlook; to ignore; suddenly

忽  

Hū

surname Hu

Most common words with 忽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

忽然

suddenly

忽略

to neglect

忽视

to neglect

忽

to neglect

忽悠

to rock

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

惚

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

惚 唿 锪

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥ˤut

xwot

hū

careless; confused


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 18.7890% of movies

1665th most common character in movies

912th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5FFD

Shuowen

“忽，忘也。从心，勿聲。”


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