hān
noun #29,176

Meanings

  1. 1 snore
  2. 2 snoring sound

Characters

Examples

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

Tips

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

Components

radical
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 does direct semantic work. The same radical heads a small, very specific family: (stuffy nose), (nasal), (nasally breathe).
phonetic
gān
dry; shield (here phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound gān → hān, a common k/h-class drift. originally pictured a forked weapon; here it brings no meaning, only the rasping syllable. Same phonetic shows up in (drought) and (pole).

Stroke Order

hān