夃
gū

thigh

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approved by Peter Olson · Nov 16, 2021, 10:48 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Nov 16, 2021, 10:48 PM

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Pictograph a person with a mark indicating the location of the thigh.

Components

人
人 Iconic component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.
◎
◎ Iconic component

Marker indicating the location of the thigh.


Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkaːʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“夃，秦以市買多得為夃。从，从夂，益至也。从乃。《詩》曰：‘我夃酌彼金罍。’”

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)