觿

a bodkin made of ivory

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxjwieqʷʰespike of horn or bone for opening knots
Zhengzhangqʰʷe
Unicodehuei
xiuɛ

說文解字

佩角,銳耑可以解結。从角巂聲。《詩》曰:“童子佩觿。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica