kuì

deaf

Components
耳 meaning component

  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

ear

貴 sound component

  Sound component

guì

  

expensive

Evolution

聵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kuì

deaf; born deaf; obtuse

Most common words with 聵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

振聋发聩

lit. so loud that even the deaf can hear (idiom); rousing even the apathetic

deaf

昏聩

muddle-headed

发聋振聩

lit. so loud that even the deaf can hear (idiom); rousing even the apathetic

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]ˤruj-s

ngweajH

kuì

deaf


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5209th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+8075

Shuowen

“聵,聾也。从耳,貴聲。,聵或从。”


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