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从
从
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Translingual
| Traditional | 從 |
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| Shinjitai | 従 |
| Simplified | 从 |
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从 is the original character of 從.
Han character
从 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人人 (OO), four-corner 88000, composition ⿰人人)
References
- KangXi: page 92, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 362
- Dae Jaweon: page 195, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 105, character 3
- Unihan data for U+4ECE
Chinese
| For pronunciation and definitions of 从 – see 從. (This character, 从, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 從.) |
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Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 从
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (从) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 摐 | *sʰroːŋ, *sʰloŋ |
| 鏦 | *sʰroːŋ, *sʰloŋ |
| 豵 | *ʔsloːŋ, *ʔsloŋ |
| 嵸 | *ʔsloːŋ, *ʔsloːŋʔ |
| 蓯 | *ʔsloːŋʔ |
| 蹤 | *ʔsloŋ |
| 縱 | *ʔsloŋ, *ʔsloŋs |
| 樅 | *ʔsloŋ, *sʰloŋ |
| 磫 | *ʔsloŋ |
| 熧 | *ʔsloŋ |
| 瘲 | *ʔsloŋs |
| 暰 | *sʰloŋ |
| 瑽 | *sʰloŋ |
| 從 | *zloŋ, *zloŋ, *zloŋs |
| 从 | *zloŋ |
| 慫 | *sloŋʔ |
| 聳 | *sloŋʔ |
| 傱 | *sloŋʔ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) - a person (人), walking with another person, in the same direction. It's the graphical opposite of 北.