叱吒 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

chì, huà, é scold

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 七 represents the sound.

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

七 Sound component

qī seven

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 七 than it was in ancient scripts.

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		n̥ʰjid
Unicode	chit

《說文》：“叱，訶也。从口，七聲。”

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

乇 Sound component

tuō, zhé to depend on

Regular Modern

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	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ʔr'aːɡs

噴也。叱怒也。从口乇聲。