xiān

to whirl

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsensˤe[r]蹁蹮 walk with difficulty (Shuōwén)
Zhengzhangseːn

說文解字

蹁蹮,旋行。从足䙴聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica