噓
噓 — heo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 불[吹] 허
- Romanization
- heo
- English
- exhale; blow out; deep sigh; hiss; praise, flatter; lie
- Mandarin
- xū
- Japanese on'yomi
- キョ, コ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ふく うそ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 口 (30, 11 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5653
Parts that make up 噓
How 噓 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 噓 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 口, 虛.
Korean example words with 噓
- 취허하다吹噓 Korean gloss: 남이 잘한 것을 과장되게 칭찬하여 천거하다.
- 허풍선噓風扇 Korean gloss: 바람을 일으켜 숯불을 피우는 손풀무의 하나.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 噓
- 噓乙うそおつ sure buddy; nice try; surely not
Other hanja read “허”
Other hanja with radical 口
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences