蓳
jǐn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjɨnXkə[r]ʔ(kind of vegetable)
kjɨnHkə[r]-saconite
Zhengzhangkɯnʔ

說文解字

艸也。根如薺，葉如細桺，蒸食之甘。从艸堇聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)