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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
The SBGY index for 冃 is 417.42, for 冒 it's 417.50. Everything is the same, including the MC, so I assume the OC reconstruction has to be too.
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Depicts a hat. Original form of 帽.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
說文解字
《說文》：“冃，小兒、蠻夷頭衣也。从冂，二其飾也。”
Sources
- Character origin
- The Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)