a leather knee-pad worn during sacrifices

Evolution

韍 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
韍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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a leather knee-pad worn during sacrifices; kneepad

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8714th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+97CD

Shuowen

“巿,韠也。上古衣蔽前而已,巿以象之。天子朱巿,朱矦赤巿,大夫葱衡。从巾,象連帶之形。韍,篆文巿从韋,从犮。”


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