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Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC 
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Pictograph of a large room. Original form of 堂.
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說文解字
《說文》：“冂，邑外謂之郊，郊外謂之野，野外謂之林，林外謂之冂，象遠界也。冋，古文冂。从囗，象國邑。坰，冋或从土。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)