yuè
battle-axe
Pictograph of a battle-axe, similar to 戈, 戊, and 戌. Now written as 鉞.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷat | hjwot | yuè | a kind of axe |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+6209 |
Shuowen | “戉,斧也。从戈,聲。” |
Sources
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