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沴
lì

foul and poisonous in confusion

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Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrɯːls

說文解字

水不利也。从水㐱聲。《五行傳》曰:“若其沴作。”

Sources

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