gums (of the teeth)

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangŋɡrɯnʔ
ŋɡɯn

說文解字

齒本也。从齒斤聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

yín, yǐn, yǎn gums (of the teeth) Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

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