duóDuó

bell

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdaklˤaka kind of bell
Zhengzhangl'aːɡ

說文解字

大鈴也。軍法:五人爲伍,五伍爲兩,兩司馬執鐸。从金睪聲。

Sources

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

duó bell Simplified

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

bell

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode