觜
zuǐzī

beak

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Phonosemantic compound. 角 represents the meaning and 此 represents the sound. Original form of 嘴.

Components

角
角 Meaning component
此
此 Sound component

The pronunciation of 觜 was similar to 此 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsjweX[ts]ojʔ beak

說文解字

《說文》：“觜，鴟舊頭上角觜也。一曰觜觿也。从角，此聲。”

Sources

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