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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shān mountain
Sound component
strange

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰral
ɡɯl
Unicodeghiəi

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica