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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: silky color
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 毚 represents the sound. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | |
|---|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | zlɯː | |
| zlɯːs | ||
| sraːm | ||
| Unicode | dzhəi |
說文解字
《說文》：“纔，帛雀頭色。一曰微黑色如紺。纔，淺也。讀若讒。从糸，毚聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)