wò
lie down
Depicts a person (人) with their eye (臣) leaning forward preparing to lie down and sleep.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]ˤ[o]j-s | ngwaH | wò | lie down, sleep |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.0453% of movies
1494th most common character in movies
1944th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+81E5 |
Shuowen | “臥，休也。从人、臣，取其伏也。” |
Sources
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