huì

beak

A hedgehog's  mouth 

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
Meaning component
tuàn, shǐ a hog

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyhwejHt-l̥ o[rʔ]-ssnout; to pant
xjwojHl̥ o[rʔ]-s (W dialect: *l̥ - > MC x-)snout; to pant
Zhengzhanghlods
l̥ʰjods

說文解字

口也。从口彖聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica