霍

Huo4
#1,440 most
frequent character
surname Huo

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

霍 combines 隹, a bird, with 雨 yǔ, which supplies the sound, though that link is faint today. It first meant the noise a flock of birds makes in flight. That grew to moving fast, and then to suddenly.

Drawn as: a bird

霍 as a component in other characters

sound2 characters
藿嚯
picture1 character
攉

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Same Characters, Different Readings

霍huò
(literary) suddenly

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