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approved by Peter Olson · Dec 18, 2020, 12:58 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Dec 18, 2020, 12:58 PM

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Depicts an object hitting the ground.

Components

Iconic component

Depicts an object hitting the ground.

Iconic component

Depicts the ground.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttejtˤij Western tribes
tejXtˤijʔ bottom

說文解字

《說文》:“氐,至也。从氏下箸一。一,地也。林義光《文源》:“當與‘氐’同字。氏、氐音稍變,故加‘一’以別之。‘一’,實非地。氏象根。根在地下,非根之下復有地也。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.860-861漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica