pearl that is not quite round

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

幾 sound component

  Sound component

  

how much

Evolution

璣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
璣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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pearl that is not quite round; irregular pearl

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2107th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+74A3

Shuowen

“璣,珠不圜也。从玉,幾聲。”


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