Trace Panda
■ radical

é

sudden

How it’s built

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 我 represents the sound.

亻
meaning

person — 亻 is a component form of 人.

我
sound

I; me — The pronunciation of 俄 was similar to 我 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

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