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(Cant.) intensive particle

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtkʰuːb
kuːb
quːb
quːb

說文解字

《說文》:“佮,合也。从人,合聲。”

Sources

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