咳
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sound of sighing; (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc) oh; damn; wow
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 口 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 咳
- Common rank
- #3,034
- Unicode
- U+54B3
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 咳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百日咳 | whooping cough; pertussis | |
| 北京咳 | "Beijing cough", respiratory problems caused by dry and polluted Beijing air, typically ex… | |
| 止咳糖浆 | cough suppressant syrup; cough mixture | |
| 咳血 | to cough up blood | |
| 干咳 | to cough without phlegm; a dry cough | |
| 镇咳 | cough suppressant | |
| 止咳 | to suppress coughing | |
| 咳痰 | to cough up phlegm; to expectorate | |
| 咳呛 | (dialect) to cough | |
| 咳嗽 | to cough; CL:陣|阵[zhen4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 亥 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亥 sound part | 12th terrestrial branch; used in transliterations | |
| 核 | core, kernel; nut, seed; atom | |
| 刻 | to carve, to engrave; a quarter hour; a moment | |
| 孩 | baby, child; children | |
| 该 | should, ought to, must | |
| 骇 | to terrify, to shock, to frighten | |
| 骸 | skeleton, body; leg bone | |
| 颏 | chin | |
| 赅 | to include; to prepare for | |
| 劾 | to look into; to impeach, to charge | |
| 氦 | helium | |
| 垓 | border, boundary, frontier | |
| 阂 | separated, blocked; to prevent, to block | |
| 胲 | hydroxylamine | |
| 陔 | ledge, step, terrace; slope |