Original meaning: offer sacrifice for fortune-telling
Depicts wood (木) atop a sacrificial altar (示). Based on the original meaning "offer sacrifice for fortune-telling". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | naːds |
說文解字
《說文》：“柰，果也。从木，示聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)