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Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpʰrɯ
pʰrɯʔ
pʰɯ
pʰɯʔ

說文解字

一稃二米。从禾丕聲。《詩》曰:“誕降嘉穀,惟秬惟秠。”天賜后稷之嘉穀也。

Sources

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