mǒu

private, selfish

A small circle depicting personal space or things revolving around oneself. Original form of .

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

Distinguishing (1)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsil

說文解字

《說文》:“厶,姦衺也。韓非曰:‘蒼頡作字,自營為厶。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica