She smiled without speaking, mysterious and inscrutable.
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history
咲 is an archaic variant of 笑 (xiào), meaning to laugh or smile. It is found in classical Chinese texts and is no longer used in modern standard Chinese. In Japanese, 咲 (saku) means 'to bloom (of flowers)' - a completely different meaning.
usage
In modern Chinese, 咲 is essentially obsolete. You may encounter it in classical literature or as a given name. Always use 笑 in contemporary writing.
口 depicts an open mouth, source of laughter and smiles. As radical it marks 咲 as a vocal expression - the visible smile or audible laugh emerging from the mouth, which is why this old variant of 笑 carries the mouth header.
关 here functions as a graphic phonetic component (sound shifted significantly to xiào). 咲 is the older variant form of 笑 still common in Japanese; the right side carries its phonetic load while 口 supplies the smile radical.
No stroke data for 咲; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
