赅括

赅 gāi prepared for Simplified

Components

贝
贝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell

money

亥
亥 Sound component
hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

括 kuò include, enclose

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 𠯑 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

𠯑
𠯑 Sound component
guā block the mouth

Modern form looks like 舌.

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

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːd

說文解字

《說文》：“，絜也。从手，聲。”

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)

賅 prepared for Traditional

Components

貝
貝 Meaning component
bèi sea shell

money

亥
亥 Sound component
hài, jiē 12th terrestrial branch

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkɯː

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica