丩
jiū

join

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approved by Peter Olson · Oct 12, 2020, 06:27 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 12, 2020, 06:27 AM

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Pictograph of two ropes entangled together, now written as 糾.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkjiwk-riw (dialect: *k-r- > *kr-)twist (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“丩，相糾繚也。一曰瓜瓠結丩起。象形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.153
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)