竷
kǎnkàn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhomX[k]ʰomʔ(booming sound?)
Zhengzhangkʰluːms

說文解字

繇也舞也。樂有章。从章从夅从夊。《詩》曰：“竷竷舞我。”

Sources

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