毌
guàn

pierce through

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Variant of 貫. Depicts a string being pierced through a shell (貝), similar to 串.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Jin 266-420 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːn
koːns

說文解字

《說文》：“毌，穿物持之也。从一橫貫，象寶貨之形。讀若冠。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.593
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)