冓
gòu

a secluded place

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Original meaning: meet unexpectedly

Depicts two fish facing each other. Based on the original meaning "meet unexpectedly", now written as 遘.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkuwHkˤ(r)o-s 中冓 inner chamber

說文解字

《說文》：“冓，交積材也。象對交之形。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.315
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)