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Kanji Detail for 喁 - "gasp"
喁
- Meaning
喁 means "gasp."
Gasp - A fish opening and closing its mouth at the surface.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
the mouth of a fish at the surface of the water; gasping for breath
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
the mouth of a fish at the surface of the water, gasping for breath
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(literary) (of a fish) to stick its mouth out of the water
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to breathe like a fish; to gasp for breath
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Fish mouths appearing at the surface. Hence people looking up with admiration is called 喁喁, like fish looking upward. Also read like 于.
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