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🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳

same

Nature →Plants →Trees

Original form of 曹. Depicts a pair of bags or baskets.

Components

東 east+ 東 east =

㯥 same

東

東 Iconic component

east

Depicts a bag or basket.

東

東 Iconic component

east

Depicts a bag or basket.

Notes

Similar Characters

熏 fumigate (simp)重 heavy 量 quantity 凍 freeze (trad/jp)棟 building (trad/jp)童 juvenile 腖 a kind of protein (trad)鶇 thrush (trad)陳 exhibit (trad/jp)

Historical Evolution

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

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Regular

Modern