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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: kill
Depicts two weapons (戈) facing each other. Based on the original meaning "kill", now written as 殘. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | dzan | [dz]ˤa[n] | kill; cruel |
說文解字
《說文》：“戔，賊也。从二戈。《周書》曰：‘戔戔巧言。’”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫何琳儀《戰國古文字典：戰國文字聲系》p.1042
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)