嗅

See also 口臭

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from 齅 (鼻 → 口); in current form 口 + 臭.

Han character

嗅 (radical 30 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口竹山大 (RHUK), four-corner 6603₄, composition ⿰口臭)

1. smell, scent, sniff
2. olfactive

References

• KangXi: page 201, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4048
• Dae Jaweon: page 424, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 668, character 12
• Unihan data for U+55C5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

嗅 (Yale chau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

嗅

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: かぐ (嗅ぐ, kagu)

Compounds

• 嗅覚 (きゅうかく, kyūkaku)

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Korean

Hanja

嗅 (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

嗅 (pinyin qiàng (qiang4), xiù (xiu4), Wade-Giles ch'iang⁴, hsiu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗅 (khứu)