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Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Regular Modern
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Originally written as 夃, depicting a person with a marker indicating the location of the thigh. Later the ⺼ component was added.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | kuX | kʷˤaʔ | thigh |
說文解字
《說文》：“股，髀也。从肉，殳聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)