碬
xiá

whetstone

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Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components

石
石 Meaning component
shí stone
叚
叚 Sound component
jiǎ, xiá false

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡraː

說文解字

《說文》：“碬，厲石也，从石叚聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘鄭公孫碬，字子石。’”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)