an ancient vessel used for holding boiled grain

Evolution

簠 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
簠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
簠 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

an ancient vessel used for holding boiled grain; basket used in state worship

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)aʔ

pjuX

(a kind of ritual vessel)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9082nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+7C20

Shuowen

“簠,黍稷圜器也。从竹,从皿,甫聲。,古文簠从匚,从夫。”


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