talent

A man  who can support  someone

Components

Meaning component
rén person
Meaning component
zhī support, hold up

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgjeX[ɡ]reʔskill
Zhengzhangkjes
ɡe
ɡreʔ

說文解字

與也。从人支聲。《詩》曰:“𥷤人伎忒。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica