曳
yè

pull, drag

Pictograph of two hands pulling something.

Components

𦥑
𦥑 Iconic component
jú, jǔ, póu two hands

Depicts two hands.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𦥑 than it was in ancient scripts.
◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts an object.


Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

拽洩

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

拽

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangleds
led
Unicodeiɛ̀i

說文解字

《說文》：“曳，臾曳也。从申，丿聲。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.983
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)