chin

Components

Sound component
hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch
Meaning component
(head), page

head

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkɯːʔ
ɡɯː

說文解字

醜也。从頁亥聲。

Sources

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

kē, hái, ké chin Simplified

Components

Sound component
hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch
Meaning component
page

head

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode