kuí

lance

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgwij[ɡ]ʷrija kind of lance
Zhengzhangɡʷril

說文解字

《周禮》:侍臣執戣,立于東垂。兵也。从戈癸聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica