彐 Radical 58 — a boar’s snout; a grasping hand, seen from above
jì (fourth tone, falling)
a boar’s snout; a grasping hand, seen from above
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Where the shape comes from
Read one way, a boar’s snout seen from above; read another, a hand reaching down to grasp. Genuinely rare as an independent element, it appears mostly as a simplification shorthand rather than a meaningful picture — the simplified 归, to return, reuses this shape to stand in for a far more complicated traditional right-hand side, a graphic convenience rather than a trace of the boar or the hand it once may have drawn.
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