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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: to strike a musical instrument
Depicts a weapon (殳) striking a hanging musical instrument (𡉉). 𡉉 also gives the sound. Based on the original meaning "to strike a musical instrument". The meaning later shifted to "to strike from above".
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說文解字
《說文》：“，从上擊下也。一曰素也。从殳，聲。段玉裁注：“俗作‘殼’，或作‘’。”
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- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.227Wiktionary
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)