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亖 (Kangxi radical 7,二+2, 4 strokes,cangjie input一一一一 (MMMM),four-corner10101,composition⿱二二)
| trad. | 亖 | |
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| simp. | 四* | |
| Historical forms of the character亖 | |||||||
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Spring and Autumn | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan) | Liushutong (compiled inMing) | ||
| Bronze inscriptions | Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Shizhoupian script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Ideogram (指事) - four parallel lines.Quadruplication of一. Compare二 and三. Firstly appeared inoracle bone script and commonly used beforeQin Dynasty. It became obsolete after the standardization of writing in the Qin dynasty.
| For pronunciation and definitions of亖 – see四 (“four;in orfrom thefourdirections; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of四). |
| simp. andtrad. | 亖 | |
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Non-standard variant of四.