kuī

to laugh at to pity

Components

Meaning component
xin, xīn heart

heart

Sound component
lǐ, li village

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrɯʔ
km̥ʰlɯː

說文解字

啁也。从心里聲。《春秋傳》有孔悝。一曰病也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica