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Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD 
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD Regular Modern
Changed etymology
Changed fields: hint, originalMeaning, customSources
Original meaning: comb
Pictograph of a comb for grooming one's hair, now written as 䇫. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
說文解字
《說文》：“，也。象形。頤，篆文。，籀文从首。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.844漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)