ditch

Evolution

淢 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
淢 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
淢 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
淢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

ditch; moat; swift current

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥(r)ik

xwik

channel; moat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DE2

Shuowen

“淢,疾流也。从水,或聲。”


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