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kěn HSK5

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Original meaning: meat attached to bone

Depicts meat (⺼) attached to a bone (冎). Based on the original meaning "meat attached to bone". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

冎
冎 Iconic component

Modern form looks like unrelated 止.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 冎 than it was in ancient scripts.
⺼
⺼ Iconic component

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhongXkʰˤəŋʔ to be willing

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica