卂
xùn

to fly rapidly

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Original meaning: captured prisoner of war

Depicts a captive prisoner with their hands tied behind their back. Based on the original meaning "captured prisoner of war", now written as 訊. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsins
tods

說文解字

《說文》：“卂，疾飛也。从飛而羽不見。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.825中華語文知識庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)