guī

place name

Components

Sound component
cuī high
Meaning component
jiǒng, jiōng bright window

hot

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

說文解字

周燕也。从隹,屮象其冠也。㕯聲。一曰蜀王望帝,婬其相妻,慙亡去,爲子巂鳥。故蜀人聞子巂鳴,皆起云“望帝”。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica