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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Regular Modern
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Depicts a child with a left arm but no right arm. Compare to 孓 (child with no left arm) and 了 (child with no arms).
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Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ked |
說文解字
《說文》：“孑，無右臂也。从了，。象形。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.972
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)