Chinese

嚇

/ɕi̯ä⁵¹/
to frighten; to scare
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 5
  • TOCFL 5
  • radical 口
  • 17 strokes

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Origin

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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/d-krwak (“frighten”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སྐྲག་ (skrag), Burmese ကြောက် (krauk) (Hill, 2019).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • inheritedProto-Sino-Tibetan*s/d-krwak “frighten”
  • meaningChinese口 “mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)”
  • soundChinese赫 “bright red”

Related: Tibetan སྐྲག་, Burmese ကြောက်

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