彗
huì

broom

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Pictograph of a hand holding a broom.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts a broom.

又
又 Iconic component
yòu hand

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartzjwejHs-[ɢ]ʷe[t]-s broom; comet

說文解字

《說文》：“彗，掃竹也。从又持甡。篲，彗或从竹。，古文彗，从竹从習。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)