gǔnshù

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Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

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Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkuːnʔ

說文解字

《說文》:“丨,上下通也。引而上行,讀若囟;引而下行,讀若。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica