bury

Components

Unknown component
sick
Unknown component
jiā, jiá be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides
Meaning component
earth

earth

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

bury Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartʔjejHq(r)[e]p-ssacrifice by burying
Zhengzhangqrebs

說文解字

幽薶也。从土㾜聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica