哭
Meanings
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- 1.to cry; to weep
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Wiktionary
- 1.to weep; to cry; to wail
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Etymology
In oracle bone inscriptions, ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 吅 (“loudly”) + person with long hair (Similar to 老 without the cane) – "cry; weep". The pictogram of the person with long hair corrupted into 犬. Evidence suggests 吅 could be an abbreviation of the sound component 咢 (OC *ŋaːɡ), making the character phono-semantic (形聲 /形声). Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋ̊ʰoːɡ): semantic 吅 (“to speak loudly”) + abbreviated phonetic 獄 (OC *ŋoɡ). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kuːk (“to weep; to wail”); cognate with Mizo kûk (“to shriek”) (STEDT). This seems to be an area word; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuk ~ kuuk ~ kuək ~ kək (“to call”), Proto-Austronesian *-kuk (“sound of a sob”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
她在哭。
She was crying.
我想哭。
I wanted to cry.
我想哭。
I want to cry.
她哭了。
She cried.
他哭了。
He was crying.
我想哭。
I feel like crying.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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