sneeze

mouth (口) + sound (疐) = sneeze

The mouth radical grounds the meaning in a bodily oral action. 疐 (zhì) contributes the sound, approximated as tì in modern Mandarin.

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MouthSemantic
A classical character meaning to stumblePhonetic

他突然打了一个喷,吓了大家一跳。

tā tū rán dǎ le yī gè pēn tì, xià le dà jiā yī tiào。

He suddenly sneezed and startled everyone.

天气变凉了,她一直在打喷,可能是感冒了。

tiān qì biàn liáng le, tā yī zhí zài dǎ pēn tì, kě néng shì gǎn mào le。

The weather turned cold and she kept sneezing, maybe she caught a cold.

Words with 嚏

阿嚏

ā tì

(onom.) a-choo (sound of a sneeze)

喷嚏

pēn tì

sneeze

喷嚏剂

pēn tì jì

sternutator

嚏喷

tì pen

sneeze

打喷嚏

dǎ pēn tì

to sneeze

打嚏喷

dǎ tì pen

to sneeze

More characters with 口