huò

quickly

Birds  caught in a sudden storm 

Components
雨 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rain

隹 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

霍 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
霍 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
霍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
霍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huò

quickly, suddenly; surname; suddenly

 

Huò

surname Huo

Most common words with 霍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Huo

霍华德

Howard (name)

挥霍

extravagant

霍乱

cholera

霍顿

Hotton, Holden, Wharton, Houghton etc (name)

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.1783% of movies

1347th most common character in movies

1442nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+970D

Shuowen

“靃,飛聲也,雨而雙飛者其聲靃然。”


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