(upside-down mouth), to assemble

Depicts an upside-down mouth ().

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Iconic (6)

Meaning (2)

Simplified (2)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzub

說文解字

《說文》:“亼,三合也。从入、一,象三合之形。讀若集。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.437
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica