伛
yǔ

humpback

A person 亻 forced into a box 区

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person
区
区 Meaning component
qū area

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

傴 humpback Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'juXq(r)oʔ humpback

說文解字

《說文》:“傴,僂也。从人,區聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica