snout, head of a wild boar

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Pictograph of the head of a wild boar. Remnant of .

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkrads

說文解字

《說文》:“彑,豕之頭,象其銳而上見也。讀若罽。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.735
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica