blow through nose

Components
虚 sound component

  Sound component

  

void, false

欠 meaning component

  Meaning component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

breathe

Evolution

歔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
歔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
歔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

blow through nose, snort; to snort

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6B54

Shuowen

“歔,欷也。从欠,虛聲。一曰出气也。”


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