哭 (kū)
to cry; to weep
How 哭 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 吅 — N/A
- Traditional
- 哭
- Simplified
- 哭 (unchanged)
Components
- 吅 N/A
- 犬 dog
Common words using 哭
- 哭泣 kūqì
- to weep
- 大哭 dàkū
- to cry loudly
- 哀哭 āikū
- to weep in sorrow
- 哭哭啼啼 kūkutítí
- to weep endlessly; interminable wailing
- 哭喊 kūhǎn
- to wail
- 哭喪 kūsāng
- to wail at a funeral; formal wailing while offering sacrifice to the departed
- 哭天抹淚 kūtiānmǒlèi
- to wail and whine; piteous weeping
- 哭牆 kūqiáng
- Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem)
- 哭窮 kūqióng
- to bewail one's poverty; to complain about being hard up; to pretend to be poor
- 哭笑不得 kūxiàobùdé
- lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); both funny and extremely embarrassing; in a desperate state; between laughter and tears
- 哭聲 kūshēng
- sound of weeping
- 哭腔 kūqiāng
- sobbing tone; sob; dirge
哭 in a sentence
別哭，跟我說發生什麼事了。
Bié kū, gēn wǒ shuō fāshēng shénme shì le.
“Don't cry, tell me what happened.”
How common is 哭?
哭 is the 1,208th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92% of all running text.
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