scold loudly

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 .

可 sound component

  Sound component

  

able to

Evolution

诃 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
诃 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
诃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
诃 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诃 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

scold loudly, curse, abuse; to scold

Most common words with 诃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to scold

堂吉诃德

Don Quixote

契诃夫

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays

唐吉诃德

Don Quixote

诃子

chebulic myrobalan (Terminalia chebula)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3687th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BC3


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