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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC 
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC 
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC 
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: insightful
Depicts a line (囱) piercing a heart (心), conveying the meaning "insightful", now written as 聰. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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說文解字
《說文》：“悤，多遽悤悤也。从心、囪，囪亦聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.762林志強《《文源》評注》p.36張世超《金文形義通解》p.2443-2444
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- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)