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Original meaning: hedgehog

Phonosemantic compound. 㣇 represents the meaning and 胃 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "hedgehog". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

㣇
㣇 Meaning component
Change in meaning
㣇 hints at the original meaning of 彙, "hedgehog", which is no longer the most common meaning of 彙 in modern Mandarin.
胃
胃 SoundRemnant component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɢruds

說文解字

《說文》：“，蟲似豪豬者。从，省聲。蝟，或从虫。”

Sources

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