Depicts two hands (廾) rolling up rice (米) into a ball. The 米 component was later reanalyzed as phonetic component 釆.
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說文解字
《說文》：“，摶飯也。从廾，釆聲。釆，古文辦字。”
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- Character origin
- 古今文字集成Wiktionary
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)