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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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A wooden (木) pole at nose (自) height used as an arrow target or as a guidepost for measuring the position of the sun by its shadow.
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說文解字
《說文》：“臬，射準的也。从木，从自。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫李学勤 《字源》 p.529The Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)