欶
shuò

to suck, drink

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Phonosemantic compound. 束 represents the sound and 欠 represents the meaning.

Components

束
束 Sound component
欠
欠 Meaning component

Depicts a person with an open mouth.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsloːɡs
sroːɡ

說文解字

《說文》：“欶，吮也。从欠，束聲。”

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)