啸 嘯
啸嘯 in English
- (of people) to whistle / (of birds and animals) to screech / to howl / to roar
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 嘯, the traditional character: 啸 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Ancient forms in the Shuowen -
Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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海啸席卷稻田， 淹没了城镇。
Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.
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海啸来了，密切注意啊。
A tsunami is coming, so please be on the alert.
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海啸的警报解除了。
The tsunami alert was cancelled.