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Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD Regular Modern
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Depicts a group of plants (屮, 艹). Originally written as 芔 (屮, 艸) resulting in its erroneous replacement of the once visually similar but unrelated form of 犇 (run) within some characters.
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說文解字
《說文》：“卉，艸之總名也。从艸、屮。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫The Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)