dàng

bamboo

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl̥ʰaːŋ
l'aːŋʔ

說文解字

大竹也。从竹湯聲。《夏書》曰:“瑤琨筱簜。”簜可爲幹,筱可爲矢。

Sources

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

𰩹 dàng, tāng bamboo Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

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Unicode