鼾

hān
noun #29,176

Meanings

  1. 1 snore
  2. 2 snoring sound

Characters

Examples

HSK 4
Tā shuìjiào de shíhou dǎhān hěn xiǎng.
He snores very loudly when he sleeps.
HSK 5
Hānshēng bǎ wǒ chǎo xǐng le.
The snoring woke me up.

Tips

memory
Picture a nose (鼻) making a deep rumbling sound. 鼾 contains 鼻 (bí, nose) on the left, reminding you that snoring comes from the nose/throat area.

Components

radical
鼻 bí
nose
Nose radical on the left, the indexing radical and the literal source of the sound described. Snoring is air rasping through the nose, so 鼻 does direct semantic work. The same radical heads a small, very specific family of nasal-breathing characters.
phonetic
干 gān
dry; shield
Right side 干 supplies the sound gān changing to hān, a common k/h-class drift. 干 originally pictured a forked weapon; here it brings no meaning, only the rasping syllable. The same phonetic shows up in 旱 (drought) and 杆 (pole).

Stroke Order

鼾 hān