Depicts a hand (又) holding a hitting implement such as a whip or a staff. The hitting implement was later reanalyzed into the sound component 卜.
Components
Character Evolution
Component uses
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)