Glyph Origins

Radical ⽵ (118)

竹 (U+7AF9)

{竹} *truk “bamboo”

Rotated blades of grass ().

  • 葉正渤 2021 - 亦釋“■(冄、冉)”
  • 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (371)

笑 (U+7B11)

?{笑} *[sV.l]aws “to laugh”

GRASS (> 竹) + DOG (> 夭). Composition unexplained.

  • 林志強 & al. (ed.) 2017 - 《文源》評注 (489-490)
  • 黃德寬 (ed.) 2007 - 古文字譜系疏證 (757-758)