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禼

xiè

a type of animal

Depicts a kind of animal with a head, body, and feet.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts an animal's head.

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts an animal's body.

Evolution

禼 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
禼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
禼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
禼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

禼  

xiè

a type of animal

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+79BC

Shuowen

“禼，蟲也。从厹，象形，讀與偰同。”
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.956

陳靖《兩周古文字編注》p.2311



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