bury

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

bury Simplified

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