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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC 
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC 
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC 
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 𢇇 represents the sound. Depicts earrings connected to the ear.
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Historical Pronunciations
說文解字
《說文》：“聯，連也。从耳，耳連於頰也；从絲，絲連不絕也。”
Sources
- Character origin
- Zhengzhang Shangfang漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)