chuí

frontier

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
hill, place

place

Sound component
chuí droop

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangdjol
Unicodezhiuɛ

說文解字

《說文》:“陲,危也。从,垂聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica