Chinese Character Wiki

媯

guī

family name

Evolution

媯 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
媯 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
媯 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
媯 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
媯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

妫 (媯) 

guī

family name

妫 (媯) 

Guī

surname Gui; name of a river

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʷ(r)aj

kjwe

guī

(place and family name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4474th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

妫

Unicode

U+5AAF

Shuowen

“媯，虞舜居媯汭，因以為氏。从女，為聲。”


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