HSK7

indulge

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approved by Prismcool · Oct 14, 2024, 07:25 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Oct 14, 2024, 07:25 PM

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Original meaning: kill domestic animals and display them

Depicts a hand restraining a domestic animal () by holding its tail (). also represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "kill domestic animals and display them". The meaning later shifted to "shop", "wanton", "unrestrained", and "indulge".

Components

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Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsijHs-ləp-s unrestrained

說文解字

《說文》:“,極陳也。从長,隶聲。,或从髟。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.216漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica