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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
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Original meaning: comb
Pictograph of a person's chin. Original form of 頤.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
說文解字
《說文》：“，也。象形。頤，篆文。，籀文从首。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 李学勤《字源》p.1050Wenlin Dictionaries
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)