顾眄
gù​miǎn

look around

顾 gù look back, look after Simplified

Simplified form of 顧. Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 雇 represents the sound.

Components

厄
厄 Simplified component
è adversity, distress

Shorthand for the 雇 component in the traditional character 顧.

页
页 Meaning component
yè page

Depicts a head.

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

眄 miǎn, miàn to look askance

Components

目
目 Meaning component
mù eye

eye

丏
丏 Sound component
miǎn parapet

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmenXmˤe[n]ʔlook askance
Zhengzhangmeːnʔ
meːns
Unicodemèn
měn

說文解字

目偏合也。一曰衺視也。秦語。从目丏聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

顧 gù look back, look after Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 雇 represents the sound.

Components

雇
雇 Sound component
gù employ
頁
頁 Meaning component
yè (head), page

Depicts a head.

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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkuH[k]ʷˤaʔ-s
(~ *[k]ʷˤaʔ)		look around

說文解字

《說文》：“顧，還視也。从頁，雇聲。”

Sources

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