犬 (U+72AC)
| Shang | Shang | Shang (Bin) | Shang (Wuming) | Shang (Wuming) | Middle W.Zhou | Chunqiu (Qin) | Qin | Han | E.Han | Nanbei (E.Wei) | Tang |
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| 殷新229 | 集7525 | 合8979 | 合27926 | 合30510 | 集3976 [𤞷] | 石鼓.作原 [猶] | 嶽一.占42正 | 居新EPT51:576 | 五.行342 [狀] | 元寶建墓誌 | 五經文字 |
{犬} *[k]ʷʰˤ[e][n]ʔ “dog” & {狺} *ŋ(r)ə[n] “bark”
Depiction of a dog. Initially it was used for both words {犬} and {狺}. Later it began to be used only for {犬}.
- 季旭昇 2014 - 說文新證 [2nd ed.] (750)