què

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Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkhwetkʷʰˤi[t]finish, end
Zhengzhangkʰʷiːd

說文解字

事巳,閉門也。从門癸聲。

Sources

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

què, jué, kuí close Simplified

Components

Meaning component
mén, men door

gate

Sound component
guǐ 10th heavenly stem

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode