石
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石 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一口 (MR), four-corner 10600, composition ⿸丆口)
Historical forms of the character 石 | ||||
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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 |
Pictogram (象形): a stone beneath a cliff (厂). The cliff was subsequently distorted into 丆; compare 叚 , 段 as well as 度, 席.
Alternatively, a cave set into the side of a cliff or mountain.
Unknown. Probably related to Proto-Vietic *l-taːʔ (“stone”) (whence Vietnamese đá and Khmer ដា (daa, “rock; stone”)) (Schuessler, 2007), to which Chinese would have added the familiar final -k.
石
(Others)
Contains pronunciations from 擔/担 (dàn) (Qiu, 1988, p. 220).
石
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