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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: quiver
Originally depicted a quiver, a container for arrows. Later repurposed to mean "medicine" as a simplified form of the traditional character 醫.
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Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | qiːs |
說文解字
《說文》：“医，盛弓弩矢器也。从匸，从矢。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)