Chinese Character Wiki

謦

qìng, qì

to speak softly

Components
殸 sound component

殸  Sound component

qìng

  

stone chimes

言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

Evolution

謦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

謦  

qìng

to speak softly

謦  

qì

cough slightly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋʔ

khengX

qǐng

cough, clear the throat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7540th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+8B26

Shuowen

“謦，欬也。从言，殸聲。殸，籀文磬字。”


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