liè

whiskers

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

Component uses

Sound (0 of 8 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

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
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica