a kind of beast with long hair

Pictograph of a wild animal.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

Iconic (1)

Meaning (1)

說文解字

《說文》:“,脩豪獸。一曰河內名豕也。从彑,下象毛足。讀若弟。,籀文。,古文。”

Sources

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