豁
huá
#2,948 most
frequent character
to play Chinese finger-guessing game
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
豁 uses 谷 valley as its meaning part and 害 hài as its sound part. It first meant a wide, open mountain valley, then grew to crack or opening. Read huò, it also means open, clear, or exempt. The huá reading was borrowed for sound in a finger-guessing game.
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