Read Edit View history Discussion 𠄣 gèn Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Character Evolution Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 《說文》:“,竟也。从木,恆聲。,古文。” Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)