wāng

lame

Pictograph of a person with deformed legs.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (2 of 4 verified)

說文解字

《說文》:“,,曲脛也。从大,象偏曲之形。,古文从。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.771
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica