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䖯

kuí

poisonous insect

Evolution

䖯 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
䖯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

䖯  

kuí

poisonous insect, (same as 奎) one of the 28 constellations which ancient Chinese astrologers believed to control the literary trends of the world, (same as 蛙) frog

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+45AF

Shuowen

“，蠆也。从虫，圭聲。”


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