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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC 
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC 
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: knife wound
Depicts using a knife (刀) to cut through thorns (i.e. clearing away brambles). Based on the original meaning "knife wound", now written as 刱 and 創. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | sʰraŋ |
說文解字
《說文》：“刅，傷也。从刃，从一。創，或从刀，倉聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.361古文字詁林編纂委員會《古文字詁林》Vol. 4, p.581
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)