kěn HSK6

meat attached to bone

Original version of . Depicts meat (⺼) attached to a bone ().

Components

Iconic component
guǎ bone
Iconic component
ròu meat, flesh

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰɯːŋʔ

說文解字

《說文》:“肎,骨間肉肎肎箸也。从肉,从冎省。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica