咅

Analyzed as a compound ideograph with expressive force:

口 (구) — mouth; speech or expulsion

卜 (복) — here functioning as a graphic element emphasizing the act/sound

The character conveys an act of expelling from the mouth, which naturally extends to the figurative sense of refusal or rejection.

咅 is rare and appears mainly in classical texts or as a component in other characters.

The semantic shift from physical spitting to social rejection mirrors patterns seen across languages, where expulsion imagery encodes disdain or refusal.

Because of its expressive and archaic nature, 咅 seldom appears alone in modern writing.

Related characters (spitting & refusal):

吐 — spit; vomit

唾 — saliva; spit

拒 — reject

否 — deny; no

Among these, 咅 is the most archaic and expressive, functioning more as a semantic seed than a modern lexical item.

Notable derived/related forms:

㕻 — to spit (variant)

㖣 — to spit (variant, “투”)

哣 — sound of refusal; rejecting utterance

Component usage (phonetic):

賠 (배) — 咅 serves as the phonetic component

部 (부) — historically related phonetic series