snout, head of a wild boar

Pictograph of the head of a wild boar. Remnant of .

Evolution

彑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
彑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

snout; KangXi radical 58; variant of [jì]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+5F51

Shuowen

“彑,豕之頭,象其銳而上見也。讀若罽。”
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.735



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