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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
sound
Changed fields: hint
Depicts a hand (又) holding a whip or a staff. The whip or staff was later corrupted into the sound component 卜.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | pʰoːɡ |
| pʰroːɡ |
說文解字
《說文》：“攴，小擊也。从又，卜聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.238-239
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)