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Kanji Detail for 嚆 - "call, whistle"
嚆
- Meaning
嚆 means "call, whistle."
Call - To shout; to summon.
Whistle - An arrow whistling through the air.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
call
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
give forth sound, make noise
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
sound; noise
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
noise, sound
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
嚆矢: An arrow that makes a sound. The arrow hasn't arrived but the sound arrives first. Hence the first of things is also called 嚆矢. Expression from (Zhuangzi).
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