express surprise

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

牙 sound component

  Sound component

  

tooth

Evolution

讶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讶 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
讶 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
讶 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

express surprise, be surprised; astounded

Most common words with 讶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惊讶

amazed

astounded

讶异

to be surprised

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.6220% of movies

1631st most common character in movies

2162nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BB6


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