Read Edit View history Discussion 㝛 sù (ancient form of 宿) a halting place 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 Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 《說文》:“,止也。从宀,聲。,古文夙。” Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)