a large earthen pot

Depicts a vessel () with hot steam rising around it.

Components
◎ iconic component

  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts hot steam rising.

鬲 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

type of cauldron with three hollow legs

Evolution

䰜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
䰜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

(ancient form of ) a large earthen pot, a large iron cauldron

Component uses

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.rˤek

lek

tripod with hollow legs


Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+4C1C

Shuowen

“,也。古文亦鬲字,象孰飪五味气上出也。”
Sources

李学勤《字源》p.215



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