印
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印 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+4 in traditional Chinese, 卩+3 in mainland China, 6 strokes in traditional Chinese, 5 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 竹心尸中 (HPSL), four-corner 77720, composition ⿰𠀉卩(JK) or ⿻卬一(GHT))
Historical forms of the character 印 | ||||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 爪 (“hand”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”) – a hand suppressing a kneeling person.
According to 羅振玉 in his book 《增訂殷墟書契考釋》(1915), the character is an ideogram of a hand suppressing a kneeling person. The character 抑 (yì) (to suppress) was used to preserve the original meaning.
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Transliteration character.
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For pronunciation and definitions of 印 – see 抑 (“to press down; to keep down; to repress; to suppress; to restrain; to restrict; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 抑). |
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