揆
kuí

prime minister

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

癸
癸 Sound component
guǐ 10th heavenly stem

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgjwijX[ɡ]ʷijʔmeasure, estimate (v.)
Zhengzhangɡʷilʔ

說文解字

葵也。从手癸聲。

Sources

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