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Kanji Detail for 啜 - "sip, sob"

  • Meaning

    啜 means "sip, sob."

    1. Sip - To slurp; to drink.

    2. Sob - To weep while sipping air.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    suck; sip

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    sip, suck up; sob, weep

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (literary) to drink; to sip; to sob

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to drink, to sip; to sob, to weep

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To taste. (Book of Rites) "Eating beans and drinking water with full joy." A filial child serving parents. | Appearance of weeping. (Book of Odes) "Weeping and sobbing."
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