Chinese Character Wiki
欮

jué

uprising qi counterflow

Depicts difficulties exhaling (欠) when a person is upside-down (屰). Original form of 瘚.

Components
屰 meaning component

屰  Meaning component

nì

  

disobedient

欠 meaning component

欠  Meaning component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Depicts a person with an open mouth. Used here to convey the idea of exhaling.

Evolution

欮 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
欮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
欮 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
欮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

欮  

jué

to hiccough; to dig out to expand

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

厥 闕 阙

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6B2E

Shuowen

“瘚，屰气也。从疒，从屰，从欠。欮，瘚或省疒。”
Sources

鍾林《金文解析大字典》p.1099



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