Talk:鑋

Definition from Guignes

In the Napoleonic codex, de Guignes dictionary of Chinese (ca. 1812), he gives as definition of this character "K'ing" (pinyin qìng, qīng) radical 金, 鑋: "metallorum sonitum", "usurpatur etiam pro K'ing [𨆪]".

Ctext.org confirms this: "鑋𨆪同音，故云讀若𨆪，非鑋卽𨆪也。"

This K'ing (𨆪) is given as "uno pede incedere," so perhaps both refer to movement on one foot? 𨆪 incidentally has no wiktionary page, and my character recognition software has trouble recognizing my little scribble of it.

Ctext.org gives the definition as "(Cant.) to press down or push out with the foot," it being used only in Cantonese leading me to believe it is an older character indeed. The Chinese definitions on ctext are barely comprehensible to me but also imply locomotion or movement by means of one foot.

Allegorical meaning? I am no Sinologist. Thank you to those who can analyse this further, but to those who stumble across this best of luck to your research.

Also see: 𨆪