kǔn

doorsill

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhwonXkʰˤunʔ(l. for 稇 khwonX "bind (v.)" in Mòzǐ)
Zhengzhangŋɡuːn
kʰuːnʔ

說文解字

門橛也。从木困聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica