噓

See also 嘘

Translingual

simpl.		嘘
trad.		噓

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 虛 – to exhale, blow out from the mouth. Note that 虛 means empty, void, hence connotations of “empty via the mouth”.

Han character

噓 (radical 30 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口卜心一 (RYPM), four-corner 6101₇)

1. exhale
2. blow out
3. deep sigh
4. hiss
5. praise, flatter
6. lie

Descendants

• 嘘

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 209, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4206
• Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 675, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5653

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Cantonese

Hanzi

噓 (simplified 嘘, Yale heui1)

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Japanese

Kanji

噓

Readings

• On: きょ (kyo)
• Kun: ふく (fuku), うそ (uso)

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Korean

Hanja

噓 (hangeul 허, revised heo, McCune-Reischauer hŏ)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

噓 (simplified 嘘, pinyin xū (xu1), Wade-Giles hsü¹)