睪
yì

spy on

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approved by Peter Olson · Oct 9, 2021, 05:32 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 9, 2021, 05:32 PM

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Depicts shooting an arrow (矢) into the eye (目).

Components

目
目 Iconic component
矢
矢 Iconic component

Modern form looks like 幸.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 矢 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

《說文》：“睪，目視也。从橫目，从，令吏將目捕罪人也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)