茍
jí

to be circumspect

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Edited etymology

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Pictograph of a Qiang person kneeling down in respect. The 口 (mouth) component was added later since Qiang people were seen as slaves by the Yin people in ancient China. Original form of 敬.

Components

羊
羊 IconicRemnant component

Depicts an ornament resembling sheep horns. Alludes to the Qiang people's shepherd lifestyle.

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

Depicts a kneeling person.

口
口 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkɯɡ
Unicodegǒu

說文解字

《說文》：“茍，自急敕也。从羊省，从包省，从口，口猶慎言也。从羊，羊與善美同意。，古文，羊不省。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)