瘞
yì

bury

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartʔjejHq(r)[e]p-ssacrifice by burying
Zhengzhangqrebs

說文解字

幽薶也。从土㾜聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

瘗 yì bury Simplified

Components

疒
疒 Unknown component
nè sick
夹
夹 Unknown component
jiā, jiá be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides
土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth

earth

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode