to cut

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjwejH[C.qʷ](r)a[t]-sto wound, damage
Zhengzhangkʷrads

說文解字

利傷也。从刀歲聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

guì to cut Simplified

Components

Sound component
suì year
Meaning component
dāo knife

knife

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode