to soothe

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmeʔ

說文解字

《說文》:“敉,撫也。从攴,米聲。《周書》曰:‘亦未克敉公功。’讀若弭。侎,敉或从人。”

Sources

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