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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC 
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD Regular Modern
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Originally a pictograph of a scorpion. The current meaning is a phonetic loan. The simplified character 万 was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 萬.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | mans |
| mɯːɡ |
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.954-955漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica