dimples

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

Components
面 meaning component

  Meaning component

miàn

  

face

厌 sound component

  Sound component

yàn

  

dislike

Evolution

靥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
靥 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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dimples; dimple

Most common words with 靥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

dimple

笑靥

dimple

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4853rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+9765


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