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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
才
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 毚 represents the sound. Also an archaic variant form of 才.
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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
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)