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block the mouth

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approved by Peter Olson · Dec 18, 2020, 01:03 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Dec 18, 2020, 01:03 PM

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Depicts an object () blocking the mouth ().

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Depicts an object blocking the mouth.

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Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwat[k]ʷˤat (Shuōwén; no pre-Qín exx.)shut the mouth
Zhengzhangɡroːd

說文解字

《說文》:“,塞口也。从口,氒省聲。,古文从甘。”

Sources

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