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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
Changed etymology a bit
Changed fields: hint
Depicts a skull or the top of a head of a person. Same in origin to 囟.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | pɯd |
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
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)