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Pictograph of the side view of a person bending over. Original form of .

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpruː

說文解字

《說文》:“勹,裹也。象人曲形,有所包裹。”

Sources

Character origin
古文字詁林編纂委員會《古文字詁林》Vol. 8, p.138中華語文知識庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica