a tiny wooden post

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as .

Evolution

杙 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
杙 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
杙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

a tiny wooden post; peg; post for tethering animals

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6759

Shuowen

“杙,劉,劉杙。从木,弋聲。”


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