Research on 危

Monday 27 January 2025

My research into the evolution of the graph 危 involved more sources than ever before. In the final article, I was able to use only a fraction of the information I gathered.

The evolution of 危 is convoluted. It seems its origin was forgotten, its shape reinterpreted, and as a result, standardized in a way that transformed it into a new character. Even then, the meaning of the part 卩 or 㔾, although a later addition, was also lost and subsequently reinterpreted.

I first wrote it as a blog post and then made in an entry in my character database. Only the latter has links to the glossary.

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