龠
Meanings
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- 1.ancient unit of volume (half a 合[gě], equivalent to 50ml)
- 2.ancient flute
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Wiktionary
- 1.yue (a Chinese musical instrument consisting of a bamboo tube that has three or other numbers of holes)
- 2.yue (an ancient Chinese unit of volume notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds)
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a bamboo Pan flute in which two mouths (吅) perhaps indicate the round top of the bamboo pipes. In the bronze inscriptions, 亼 (a flipped 口) was added on top to show a mouth playing the instrument. Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 品 + 侖, however his analysis does not match the original appearance. The bottom component is identical but unrelated to 冊 since it originally represents bamboo slips. The whole character is similar but unrelated to 侖.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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