Original meaning: to wash one's hands
Depicts hands (廾) being washed in water. Based on the original meaning "to wash one's hands", now written as 盥. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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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
- 吴海生《說「𢍏」及相關字》
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)