砭
biān

stone probe

Components

石
石 Meaning component
shí stone

stone

乏
乏 Sound component
fá lack

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangprom
proms

說文解字

以石刺病也。从石乏聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica