欮 - Dong Chinese dictionary

jué

uprising qi counterflow

Depicts difficulties exhaling (欠) when a person is upside-down (矢). 矢 here is turned upside-down. Later, the 矢 component was reanalyzed as 屰, depicting an upside-down person. Original form of 瘚.

Components

屰 Iconic component

nì

disobedient

Originally 矢 turned upside-down, used here to imply inversion. Later reanalyzed as 屰, which also works as an iconic component.

欠 Iconic component

qiàn

yawn, deficient

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

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

欮

jué

to hiccough; to dig out to expand

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

瘚

Sound component in 4 characters (2 verified)

厥瘚闕阙

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

李学勤《字源》p.673

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