slow-tongued

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning. Variant of .

Components

Sound component
nèi inside
Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

《說文》:“,言之訥也。从口,从內。”

Sources

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