唏
xī

weep or sob

唏 xī
to sigh
(bound form) to sigh; to lament; used as a literary way to describe grieving or sighing without weeping aloud
[sobbing]
A sound associated with sobbing or gasping while crying
[laughter]
A sound associated with laughing, often used in the reduplicated form 唏唏哈哈 xī​xī​hā​hā
[clattering]
A sound associated with objects sliding, falling, or crashing, often used in the phrase 唏哩哗啦 xī​li​huā​lā

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Frequency
Character
Written text
4,453rd most common 1.78 per million
Movie subtitles
4,078th most common 0.510 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.600 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.368 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+550F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)