(hū) - literary particle; appears in adverbs like 似乎, 几乎 in Mandarin
hūTraditional: 乎
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Translation
literary particle; appears in adverbs like 似乎, 几乎
Word origin
A pictographic character originally depicting breath or sound rising and being released; it survives as a literary final particle and inside adverbs such as 几乎 (jīhū), almost.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- a drawing of breath or sound being exhaled
Stroke order
乎
Examples
。
He doesn't seem very happy.
。
I almost forgot about this.
。
She seems to be waiting for someone.
。
Almost everyone has arrived.
乎 (hū) is a classical particle living on in modern adverbs such as 似乎 (sì hū) "seemingly" and 几乎 (jī hū) "almost".
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 乎.
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