kuí

cheekbone

Components

Sound component
jiǔ nine
Meaning component
shǒu head

head

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgwij[ɡ]ʷruthoroughfare
Zhengzhangɡu
ɡʷrɯw

說文解字

九達道也。似龜背,故謂之馗。馗,高也。从九从首。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica