Glyph Origins

Radical ⼽ (62)

戌 (U+620C)

Shang
(Bin)
Shang
(Zi)
Shang
(Huang)
Middle
W.Zhou
Late
W.Zhou
QinW.HanE.HanNanbei
(N.Wei)
Tang
合7144正合21784合38024集4316集9731.1睡.日乙26銀二1992文物2002.12寇慰墓誌開石.春左2

{戌} *[sV.m]i[t] “type of a battle axe” ♪→ {戌} *sV.mi[t] “xu (11th eartly branch)”

Depiction of a battle axe.

  • 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (985)

戍 (U+620D)

Shang
(Chu)
Shang
(He)
Middle
W.Zhou
Middle
W.Zhou
QinQinW.HanNanbei
(N.Wei)
TangYuanMing
合25877合27970集5420.1集2820里J1⑨1正里8-2246張.二186張寧墓誌五經文字元0154D洪武正韻

{戍} *[C̥.n]os “to guard the border”

A person () with a glaive () on his back.

  • 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (863-864)

戚 (U+621A)

QinHanHanW.HanW.HanE.HanSanguo
(Wei)
Nanbei
(N.Wei)
TangMing
十鐘3.26上雋124.11印原205頁馬.五65
[慼]
尹YM6D2A夏承碑
[慼]
正始石經元文墓誌五經文字字彙

{戚} *[tsʰ]ˤiwk “relatives”

PERSON + ♪𢦫 *TSIWK (depiction of a battle axe with serrations for {鏚} *[tsʰ]ˤiwk “battle axe”).

  • 林澐 1989 - 說戚、我
  • 陳劍 2007 - 說殷墟甲骨文中的“玉戚”
  • 董蓮池 & 徐善飛 2015 - 戚姬簋的“戚”字研究兼說《說文》中的“戚”