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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Regular Modern
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厂 represents a slanted cliff and 夨 represents a person with a tilted head, thus conveying the meaning "slanting".
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | tsrik | [ts]rək | slanting, oblique |
說文解字
《說文》：“仄，側傾也。从人，在厂下。，籀文从夨，夨亦聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 李学勤《字源》p.832漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)