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唏嘘

xī xū

2-character word Traditional 唏噓

What 唏嘘 means

1. onomatopoeiato sigh
2. to sob

The characters in 唏嘘

• 唏xīsound of sobbing
• 嘘xūto exhale slowly; to hiss; hush!

Sounds the same

Read xī xū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 欷歔(onomatopoeia) to sob
• 欷吁variant of 唏嘘

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xī xū correctly.
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