abruptly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
犭 meaning component

  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

is a component form of .

卒 sound component

  Sound component

  

soldier, to finish

Evolution

猝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
猝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

abruptly, suddenly; abrupt; sudden; unexpected

Most common words with 猝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

猝死

sudden death (in medicine, sporting competitions etc)

猝不及防

to be caught off guard

猝然

suddenly

abrupt

仓猝

hurriedly

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3316th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+731D

Shuowen

“猝,犬从艸暴出逐人也。从犬,卒聲。”


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