夌
líng

to surpass, to ascend

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approved by cochleoid · Mar 5, 2025, 01:57 PM · Reviewed by cochleoid on Mar 5, 2025, 01:57 PM

I think I misunderstood what "remnant" was. These are entire components, they just don't look like the original, so there are no remnants here as far as I understand now.

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Depicts a person (人) with their feet (夂) climbing out of a pit covered with a roof.

Components

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

夂 is a component form of 止. In Warring States Chu script, this was 土. Versions that added the 仌 phonetic here perhaps should be identified as 凌.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartling[r]əŋ mound, hill

說文解字

《說文》：“夌，越也。从夂，从；，高也。一曰夌屖也。”

Sources

Character origin
陳靖《兩周古文字編注》p.281劉志基《中國漢字文物大系》Vol. 5, p.646
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)