哦
òoóé HSK7

oh? really? is that so?

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

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
我
我 Sound component
wǒ I; me

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangŋaːl
Unicodengɑ

說文解字

《說文新附》：“哦，吟也。从口，我聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)