jué

a large ape found in W. China

Components

Meaning component
quǎn dog

animal

Sound component
jué look about in fright or alarm

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʷaɡ

說文解字

母猴也。从犬矍聲。《爾雅》云:“玃父善顧。”攫持人也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica