Read Edit View history 盇 hé why not? would it not be better to? Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Character Evolution Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 覆也。从血、大。 Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)