niè
guidepost
A wooden (木) pole at nose (自) height used as an arrow target or as a guidepost for measuring the position of the sun by its shadow.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋˤet | nget | niè | vertical post |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5135th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+81EC |
Shuowen | “臬,射準的也。从木,从自。” |
Sources
李学勤 《字源》 p.529
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