basin

Evolution

匜 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
匜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
匜 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

basin; container for wine; washbasin with a tubular handle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*laj

ye

ewer


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+531C

Shuowen

“匜,似羹魁,柄中有道,可以注水。从匚,也聲。”


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