辠
zuì HSK6

crime

Variant of 罪.

Components

自
自 Meaning component
zì (nose), self
辛
辛 Meaning component
xīn laborious

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzuːlʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“辠，犯法也。从辛，从自。言辠人蹙鼻，苦辛之憂。秦以辠似皇字，改為罪。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)