豸
zhì

(dhole), beast

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Pictograph of some sort of animal.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdreaX[d]ˤreʔ to crouch (before catching prey)
drjeX[d]reʔ bug, wug

說文解字

《說文》：“豸，獸長脊，行豸豸然，欲有所司殺形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.737-738Wikipedia
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)