Read Edit View history Discussion 㝡 zuì HSK1 most Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents ← Back to history approved by Peter Olson · Dec 18, 2020, 02:43 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Dec 18, 2020, 02:43 PM add stroke data Changed fields: strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages Original meaning: gather Old variant of 最. Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 取 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "gather". The meaning later shifted to "accumulate", "many" and "most". Components 宀 宀 Meaning component mián roof 取 取 Sound component qǔ take Change in sound 㝡 and 取 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese. 㝡 *[ts]ˤot-s 取 *[ts]ʰoʔ-s Character Evolution Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less Historical Pronunciations Sources Character origin 季旭昇《說文新證》p.617Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica
