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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
Etymology
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Derived from the top component of 悤. Depicts a line piercing an object. The meaning later shifted to "window" (now written 窗) and "chimney".
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | sʰloːŋ |
說文解字
《說文》：“囱，在牆曰牖，在屋曰囱。象形。窗，或从穴，，古文。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.761
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)