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Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhanglomʔ
Unicodeiɛ̌m

說文解字

火行微燄燄也。从炎臽聲。

Sources

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