mà
scold
Phonosemantic compound. 网 represents the meaning and 馬 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 罵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to scold | ||
to swear or curse (at people) | ||
to damn | ||
to insult | ||
to hurl abuse |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.mˤra-s | maeH | mà | scold, revile |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.3727% of movies
1959th most common character in movies
1449th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7F75 |
Shuowen | “罵，詈也。从网，馬聲。” |
Sources
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