齔
chèn

lose baby teeth and get adult teeth

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰrinʔ
spʰrins?

說文解字

毀齒也。男八月生齒，八歲而齔。女七月生齒，七歲而齔。从齒从七。

Sources

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

龀 chèn lose baby teeth and get adult teeth Simplified

Components

齿
齿 Meaning component
chǐ teeth

teeth

匕
匕 Sound component
bǐ, pìn spoon, (person)

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode