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Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: without left arm
Depicts a child with a right arm but no left arm. Compare to 孑 (child with no right arm) and 了 (child with no arms).
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | kʷad |
| kʷɯd | |
| kʷoŋʔ |
說文解字
《說文》：“孓，無左臂也。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)