爫 is a component form of 爪, which depicts a hand or claw pointing downwards.
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
Modernradical 87; "claw" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 87)
Meaning component in 4 characters (0 verified)
妥 覓 觅 舜
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
檃
Not found in HSK word list
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+722B |
Shuowen | “爪,也。覆手曰爪,象形。” |