Trace Panda

yán

words

How it’s built

Pictograph of a tongue sticking out of a mouth. In old scripts written the same as 舌 but with an extra line.

iconic

characterless component Depicts sound coming out of the mouth.

iconic

tongue

Through the ages

Oracle bone script
Bronze script
Seal script

Appears in

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