interjection #22,263

Meanings

  1. 1 sizzle (onomatopoeia)
  2. 2 hiss
  3. 3 slurp

Examples

HSK 5
Ròu fàng jìn guō lǐ, zī de yī shēng.
The meat hit the pan with a sizzle.
HSK 5
Tā zī de yī shēng hē wán le tāng.
He slurped down the soup in one go.

Tips

usage
is a pure onomatopoeia for the sizzle of oil, hiss of steam, or slurp of liquid. Often written as (zī de yī shēng), with a sizzle.

Components

radical
kǒu
mouth
is the mouth radical and signals onomatopoeia, sound coming out of a mouth. Chinese routinely uses + a phonetic to coin imitative sounds, like buzz, tick, hiss. Here it frames the sizzling-fat or hissing-pan effect.
phonetic
this; now (literary)
gives the sound zī directly, same tone. The classical 'this/herein' meaning has no role, pure phonetic borrowing to spell a hiss-like noise. here is slightly contracted to fit alongside on the right.

No stroke data for ; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order