犯
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commit crime

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Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 𢎘 represents the sound.

Components

犭
犭 Meaning component

犭 is a component form of 犬.

𢎘
𢎘 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𢎘 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangbomʔ
Unicodebhiæ̌m

說文解字

《說文》：“犯，侵也。从犬，巳聲。”

Sources

Character origin
教育部異體字字典
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)