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Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
does not look like mouth in ancient scripts
Changed fields: components
Depicts the axle of a chariot (車).
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | sɢʷeds |
| ɢʷeds |
說文解字
《說文》：“軎，車軸耑也。从車，象形。杜林說。轊，軎或从彗。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.940
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)