嗅 — Chinese character
嗅
xiù
to sniff, to smell, to scent
- Pinyin
- xiù
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 口 臭
- Formation
- ideographic — To taste 口 an odor 臭; 臭 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 嗅 as a kanji
Common words with 嗅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嗅觉 (嗅覺) | xiù jué | sense of smell |
| 嗅探 | xiù tàn | to sniff (in order to find sth) |
| 嗅盐 (嗅鹽) | xiù yán | smelling salts |
| 嗅探犬 | xiù tàn quǎn | sniffer dog |
| 嗅球 | xiù qiú | olfactory bulb (anatomy) |
English words written with 嗅
嗅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.