wāng

lame

Variant of . Pictograph of a person with deformed legs.

Evolution

尣 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wāng

lame; the first form is Radical 43

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5C23

Shuowen

“,,曲脛也。从大,象偏曲之形。,古文从。”
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.771



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