卉
huì HSK7

general term for plants

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approved by cochleoid · Jun 13, 2022, 12:46 AM · Reviewed by cochleoid on Jun 13, 2022, 12:46 AM

Added original form 芔 and mentioned how as a component this is most likely not referring to grass. Baxter's spreadsheet doesn't have this character, but Digital EDOC had it and characters that Baxter did have (卉芔諱虺), so I was able to get the old chinese and middle chinese in the same format.

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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.

Components

屮
屮 Iconic component
chè, cǎo sprout
艹
艹 Iconic component
cao, cǎo grass

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

《說文》:“卉,艸之總名也。从艸、屮。”

Sources