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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Regular Modern
does not look like 米 in the oracle bone script
Changed fields: components
Depicts a person (尸) defecating feces.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | syijX | [qʰ]ijʔ | excrement |
| xjij | [qʰ]ij (dialect: *qʰ- > *x-, no palatalization) | moan |
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica