馘
guó

cut off left ear

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approved by inralback19 · Dec 1, 2025, 08:53 PM

more of a sound compnent than of meaning

Changed fields: hint, components

Components

首
首 Meaning component
或
或 Sound component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkweakC.qʷˤ<r>ək severed left ears

說文解字

《說文》：“聝，軍戰斷耳也。《春秋傳》曰：‘以為俘聝。’从耳，或聲。馘，聝或从首。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)