咳 (ké)
to cough
How 咳 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Traditional
- 咳
- Simplified
- 咳 (unchanged)
咳 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- hāi
- sound of sighing
- ké
- cough
Common words using 咳
- 咳嗽 késou
- to cough; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
- 止咳 zhǐké
- to suppress coughing
- 百日咳 bǎirìké
- whooping cough; pertussis
咳 in a sentence
他感冒了，一直在咳嗽。
Tā gǎnmào le, yìzhí zài késòu.
“He has a cold and keeps coughing.”
How common is 咳?
咳 is the 2,368th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.2% of all running text.
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