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嚇

嚇

嚇 U+5687, 嚇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5687
← 嚆
[U+5686] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嚈 →
[U+5688]
See also: 吓

Translingual

Han character

嚇 (radical 30 口+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 口土金金 (RGCC), four-corner 64031, composition ⿰口赫)

References

  • KangXi: page 211, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4459
  • Dae Jaweon: page 434, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 695, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5687

Chinese

trad. 嚇
simp. 吓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (赤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
浾 *sqraː
嚇 *qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ
赦 *hljaɡs
郝 *qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ
赫 *qʰraːɡ
爀 *qʰraːɡ
赤 *kʰljaɡ
烾 *kʰljaɡ
螫 *qʰjaːɡ
赥 *qʰleːɡ
捇 *qʰʷreːɡ
焃 *qʰʷreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ) : semantic 口 + phonetic 赫 ‎(OC *qʰraːɡ).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 嚇 嚇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 麻 (98) 陌 (113)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 呼訝切 呼格切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hˠaH/ /hˠæk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hᵚaH/ /hᵚak̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xaH/ /xak̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /haɨH/ /haɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /xaH/ /xɐk̚/
Wang
Li		 /xaH/ /xɐk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xaH/ /xɐk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xià he
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嚇 嚇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hè xià
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xæk › ‹ xæH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰˤ<r>ak/ /*qʰˤ<r>ak-s/
English frighten frighten

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嚇 嚇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1471 1475
Phonetic
component		 赤 赤
Rime
group		 暮 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 嚇 赫
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰraːɡs/ /*qʰraːɡ/
Notes 見莊子

Definitions

嚇

  1. to frighten; to scare
    嚇死寶寶了！ / 吓死宝宝了！  ―  Xià sǐ bǎobao le!  ―  (You) scared me! [Internet slang, usually by females]
  2. to threaten; to intimidate

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

嚇

  1. used to express disapproval or resentment. tut-tut; humph
  2. used to express astonishment

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

嚇

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

嚇 • ‎(ha, hyeok) (hangeul 하, 혁, revised ha, hyeok, McCune-Reischauer ha, hyŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嚇 (hách, hạ)

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