狠狠 hěnhěn ruthlessly Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 狠 hěn vicious Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound. Components 犭 犭 Meaning component quǎn dog 犭 is a component form of 犬. 艮 艮 Sound component gěn, gèn, hén blunt Character Evolution Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 《說文》：“狠，吠鬭聲。从犬，艮聲。” Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
