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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD Regular Modern
is a hand
Changed fields: hint
Pictograph of a hand pointing downwards.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | tsraewX | [ts]ˤ<r>uʔ | claw |
說文解字
《說文》：“爪，也。覆手曰爪，象形。”
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)