Definitions

why; how; when; what; where

Etymology

Depicts a type of fruit with something cut off from it. The component that depicts the fruit was later reanalyzed as phonetic component . Based on the original meaning "cut fruit". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

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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 Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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