Original meaning: gather
Old variant of 最. Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 取 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "gather". The meaning later shifted to "accumulate", "many" and "most".
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.617
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica