imperial domain

Components

SoundRemnant component
how much
Meaning component
tián field

land

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 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-Sagartgj+j[g]ə[r] (dialect: *-r > *-j?)royal domain

說文解字

《說文》:“畿,天子千里地。以遠近言之,則言畿也。从田,幾省聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica