簋
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container for sacrificial grain

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approved by inralback19 · Nov 6, 2025, 08:42 PM

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Depicts a container (皿) for storing sacrificial grain (皀). The ⺮ (bamboo) component was added later.

Components

⺮
⺮ Meaning component
皀
皀 Iconic component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 皀 than it was in ancient scripts.
皿
皿 Iconic component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwijXkʷruʔ ritual vessel

說文解字

《說文》：“簋，黍稷方器也。从竹、从皿、从皀。，古文簋，从匚、飢。匭，古文簋或从軌。朹，亦古文簋。”

Sources

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