哮 (xiào): to pant; to wheeze

Meanings

1 to pant; to wheeze
2 to roar; to bark (of animals)

Characters

哮

xiào

to wheeze; to roar; to bark

Examples

哮喘患者在运动后容易出现哮鸣音。

Xiàochuǎn huànzhě zài yùndòng hòu róngyì chūxiàn xiào míng yīn.

Asthma patients are prone to wheezing sounds after exercise.

狮子发出低沉的哮声，令人胆寒。

Shīzi fāchū dīchén de xiào shēng, lìngrén dǎnhán.

The lion let out a deep roar that made people's hearts quake.

Tips

usage

哮 most commonly appears in compounds: 哮喘 (asthma), 咆哮 (to roar with rage). As a standalone character it is relatively rare in everyday speech.

Components

radical

口 kǒu

mouth

Left-side mouth radical — a small square depicting an open mouth. Indexes 哮 in the loud-voice family alongside 喊 to shout, 吼 to roar, 叫 to yell. Carries the meaning directly: 哮 names a raspy panting or wheezing sound coming up out of the throat, which extends to a beast's roar.

phonetic

孝 xiào

filial piety (here phonetic)

Right side 孝 supplies the sound directly — xiào to xiào, identical. The filial-piety meaning of 孝 doesn't transfer; it's borrowed purely as a sound match. The disturbing semantic clash — devotion meets a roar — is just orthographic noise. 哮喘 asthma and 咆哮 to roar are the everyday compounds.