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approved by Peter Olson · Mar 2, 2026, 05:24 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Mar 2, 2026, 05:24 AM

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
hill, place

is a component form of .

Sound component
jì, zhài sacrifice to

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsjejH[ts][a]p-s connection

說文解字

壁會也。从𨸏祭聲。

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica