巤
liè

whiskers

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Pictograph of an animal with whiskers.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrab

說文解字

《說文》：“巤，毛巤也。象髮在囟上及毛髮巤巤之形。此與籀文子字同。”

Sources

Character origin
zi.tools/zi/巤
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)