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噩

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adjective #44,596

Meanings

  1. 1 startling; alarming
  2. 2 bad; ill-omened

Examples

他突然收到了爷爷去世的噩耗。
Tā tūrán shōudào le yéye qùshì de èhào.
He suddenly got the terrible news that his grandfather had passed away.
昨晚我做了一个可怕的噩梦。
Zuówǎn wǒ zuò le yígè kěpà de èmèng.
Last night I had a frightening nightmare.

Tips

usage
噩 carries a sense of shock and ill omen. Its two everyday words are 噩耗 (terrible news, usually of a death) and 噩梦 (nightmare).

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth; opening
Top-left 口 is one of four mouth shapes packed into the corners; the mouth radical is what files 噩 for lookup.
ideograph
王 wáng
a vertical-and-bar frame
A 王-like frame runs through the center, its strokes split before and after the mouth blocks; it acts as a structural skeleton, not a meaning, in 噩.
semantic
口 kǒu
mouth; opening
Top-right 口. The four repeated mouths give 噩 a crowded, clamoring look that suits its alarming, ominous sense.
semantic
口 kǒu
mouth; opening
Bottom-left 口, mirroring the top pair below the central frame, continuing the four-mouth pattern of 噩.
semantic
口 kǒu
mouth; opening
Bottom-right 口, the last of the four; the symmetrical block of mouths is the visual signature of 噩.

Stroke Order

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