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唏嘘
xī​xū

to sob or sigh

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
唏嘘 唏噓 xī​xū
to sob or sigh
to weep with convulsive gasps; to lament or sigh (literary)
sob or sigh
(onomatopoeia) the sound of sobbing or sighing

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.43 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 欷歔 xī​xū

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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