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(crane), very high

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Original meaning: crane

Depicts a bird () with a line on its neck to either indicate a crane's long neck or loudness of its call. Based on the original meaning "crane", now written as . The meaning later shifted to "very high".

Components

Iconic component

Line indicating a crane's long neck or its loudness of its call.

Iconic component

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthowk[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

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica