human's head

Depicts a skull or the top of a head of a person. Same in origin to .

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Iconic (1)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpɯd

說文解字

《說文》:“甶,鬼頭也。象形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.718
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica