guǐ
container for sacrificial grain
Depicts a container (皿) for storing sacrificial grain (皀). The ⺮ (bamboo) component was added later.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
guǐ
a square basket of bamboo for holding grain used at sacrifices, feast; ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles; round basket of bamboo
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷruʔ | kwijX | guǐ | ritual vessel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6715th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+7C0B |
Shuowen | “簋，黍稷方器也。从竹、从皿、从皀。，古文簋，从匚、飢。匭，古文簋或从軌。朹，亦古文簋。” |
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