yí
chin
Original meaning:
comb
Pictograph of a comb for grooming one's hair, now written as 䇫. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢə {*[ɢ](r)ə} | yi | yí | chin |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+268DE |
Shuowen | “，也。象形。頤，篆文。，籀文从首。” |
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