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揜
yǎn

cover up

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqaːmʔ
qramʔ

說文解字

自關以東謂取曰揜。一曰覆也。从手弇聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
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