Definitions

(literary) hard iron; (literary) hook; barb; used in personal names and place names; variant of 巨[jù]

Etymology phono-semantic

metal

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Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
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Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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Clerical Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
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