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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Regular Modern
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Pictograph of a dog (犬) with an object on it that is making the dog stumble. Original form of 跋. Also used as a variant of 拔 (to pull up).
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說文解字
《說文》：“犮，走犬皃。从犬而丿之。曳其足則剌犮也。”
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- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.750-751
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- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)