Read Edit View history 葢 gài cover Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Character Evolution Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC Bronze Qin 221-206 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 苫也。从艸盇聲。 Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)