huǐ

to pound rice

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

Components

Iconic component
jiù, qiǔ rice flour
Iconic component
shū weapon or tool

Character Evolution

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

Component uses

Sound (2)

Remnant (2)

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