咳
kéhāi HSK5

cough

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

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
亥
亥 Sound component
hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhojHkʰˤək-s cough

說文解字

《說文》：“咳，小兒笑也。从口，亥聲。孩，古文咳从子。”

Sources

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