suì

obey

represents the sound and the top two strokes disambiguate from .

Components

eight
Sound component
shǐ pig

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2)

說文解字

《說文》:“,从意也。从八,豕聲。”

Sources

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