Guī

family name

No origin information available for this character yet.

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Readings & variants
Unicode

family name Traditional

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Spring and Autumn ~600 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjweC.qʷ(r)aj(place and family name)

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Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

guī name of a river in Shanxi Traditional

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʷral

說文解字

虞舜居嬀汭,因以爲氏。从女爲聲。

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Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang