嘘

See also: 噓

嘘 U+5618, 嘘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5618 ← 嘗 [U+5617] CJK Unified Ideographs 嘙 → [U+5619]

Translingual

Japanese	嘘
Simplified	嘘
Traditional	噓

Han character

嘘 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口卜心金 (RYPC), four-corner 6101₂, composition ⿰口虚)

Related characters

• 噓 (Orthodox traditional form)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 206, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 675, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5618

Chinese

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant simplified from 噓 (虛 → 虚). Found in the Jiyun 《集韻 (Jíyùn)》 dictionary published during the Song dynasty (1039 AD).

Eventually adopted as an official form by the People's Republic of China in 1965 based on the Table of General Used Chinese Characters for Publishing 《印刷通用漢字字形表》 where Xin Zixing (新字形) is promulgated for the first time.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 嘘 – see 噓 (“to slowly exhale; to sigh; to lament; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 噓).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00681-001#26