毇
huǐ

to pound rice

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Original meaning: 䊆

Depicts using a tool (殳) to pound rice into flour (䊆).

Components

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殳
殳 Iconic component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanghmralʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“毇，米一斛舂為八斗也。从，从殳。”

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)