guàkuā

obstructed

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
guī jade pointed at top

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwɛH[k]ʷˤre-sentangled
Zhengzhangkʰʷreː
ɡʷreːs

說文解字

繭滓絓頭也。一曰以囊絮練也。从糸圭聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

𮉤 guà, kuā obstructed Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode