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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD 
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD 
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: pass through
Phonosemantic compound. 止 (foot) represents the meaning and 厤 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "pass through". The meaning later expanded to also include "experience" and "history".
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | lek | [r]ˤek | pass by; in turn |
說文解字
《說文》：“歷，過也。从止，厤聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)