韱
xiān

wild onions or leeks

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Phonosemantic compound. 㦰 represents the sound and 韭 represents the meaning.

Components

㦰
㦰 Sound component
韭
韭 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsem

說文解字

《說文》：“韱，山韭也。从韭，聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)