㸒
yín
to absurd pursuit or desire
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Definitions
yín
to absurd pursuit or desire; to wish wildly; to desire to long for (usually more than one's rightful share), to knit; to weave
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[N.]r[ə]m | yim | yín | to covet |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+3E12 |
Shuowen | “，近求也。从爪、壬。壬，徼幸也。” |
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