嗟
Meanings
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- 1.sigh
- 2.also pr. [juē]
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Wiktionary
- 1.sigh; alas
- 2.only used in 咄嗟 (duōjiē, “in a short time”)
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Etymology
In Small Seal Script, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsljal): semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 差 (OC *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral) (𧪘). In Regular Script, 言 (yán) became 口 (kǒu).
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Components
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