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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: crane
Depicts a bird (隹) emerging from an enclosure (冂) flying up very high. Once used to write 鹤 (crane).
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | howk | [g]ˤawk | high |
說文解字
《說文》：“隺，高至也。从隹上欲出冂。《易》曰：‘夫乾隺然’。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 李学勤 《字源》 p.475《康熙字典》 1364.080說文解字
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)