Glyph Origins

Radical ⽈ (73)

曰 (U+66F0)

Shang
(Shi)
Shang
(Bin)
Shang
(Huang)
Middle
W.Zhou
Zhanguo
(Qin)
QinW.HanE.HanE.HanNanbei
(N.Wei)
TangMing
合20315合562反合37868集2696駰乙.正睡.爲23北.老86五.行383五.行227笱景墓誌五經文字洪武正韻

{曰} *[w]at “to say”

Depiction of a mouth () with a line over it, representing the sound coming from it.

  • 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (386-387)