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approved by Marcus Ngai · Mar 2, 2026, 11:38 PM · Reviewed by Marcus Ngai on Mar 2, 2026, 11:38 PM

金 → 釒

Changed fields: components

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 𧴪 represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
𧴪
𧴪 Sound component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartswaX[s]ˤojʔ chain

說文解字

《說文新附》:“鎖,鐵鎖,門鍵也。从金,聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica