kuì

heave sigh

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
wèi stomach

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhwɛjH[k]ʷʰˤrə[t]-ssigh
khwijH[k]ʷʰrə[t]-ssigh
Zhengzhangkʰruːds
kʰruds

說文解字

大息也。从口胃聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica