hān

snore loudly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鼻 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

nose

干 sound component

  Sound component

gāngàn

  

interfere

Evolution

鼾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鼾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hān

snore loudly; snore; to snore

Most common words with 鼾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

打鼾

to snore

鼾声

sound of snoring

snore

鼾声如雷

thunderous snoring

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.1213% of movies

3281st most common character in movies

3822nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+9F3E

Shuowen

“鼾,臥息也。从鼻,干聲。讀若汗。”


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