尬
gà HSK7

limp

Phonosemantic compound. 尢 represents the meaning and 介 represents the sound.

Components

尢
尢 Meaning component
yóu, wāng lame
介
介 Sound component
jiè to lie between

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkreːds

說文解字

𡰉𡯗也。从尣介聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)