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Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsuwk[ts]ˤokarrowhead
Zhengzhangʔsoːɡ

說文解字

利也。从金族聲。

Sources

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

zú, chuò arrowhead Simplified

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
clan, tribe, race

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode