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Gui (pinyin: guǐ) is a commonly used Chinese character, which was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Deck is the tenth in the heavenly stems and is also used as the tenth in the sequence. As early as in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Gui was used as the name of the Ten-Day Dry, and because of the habits of Yin people, it was often used as the temple name of the first man and the first woman. Therefore, the meaning of borrowing has become its universal meaning, while the original meaning cannot be verified.
Etymological interpretation
The configuration of "Gui" is still inconclusive, and it is suspected to be an pictograph, but the shape of the image is unknown. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Xu Shen thinks that nonyl represents winter, and the characters look like water flowing into the ground from all directions, but the following characters are like people's feet, which contradicts the explanation. Gui Fu's Shuo Wen Jie Zi holds that "Gui" is the original word of "slap", which means slap and stir-fry. This meaning has nothing to do with the ancient Chinese character "ghost". "Deck" means a loanword, followed by a handle to distinguish it.
Luo Zhenyu, a philologist, thinks that "Gui" is the original word of "Kun", and "Kun" is the Sanfengge. Ye Yusen in The Collection of Oracle Bone Inscriptions disagreed with Luo Zhenyu. He believes that Luo Zhenyu's use of individual glyphs in Oracle Bone Inscriptions as evidence is inconsistent with most of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
Rao Jiong, a modern man, thinks that "Gui" is the original word of "Kwai". "Sunflower" mainly refers to winter sunflower in ancient times. Jia's "decyl" shape is like four opposite leaves. The ancient Chinese character "Gui" corresponds to the split leaves of winter sunflower. The "decyl" of this sunflower is an pictograph, and the original meaning of the word "decyl" should be sunflower.
The word "Gui" was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and painted as 1, which looks like the intersection of two objects. A slightly more complicated way of writing is to add short strokes to the four corners, which have two configurations, head and head, as shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3 respectively. In the future, they will develop in these two directions respectively. The former did not change much until the Eastern Han Dynasty, and still existed as a variant of the word "Gui", which was unknown after the Eastern Han Dynasty. The latter was seen at the latest in the Warring States period.
However, since the Spring and Autumn Period, another configuration of "7" has appeared, which is based on the cloud "like a human foot" in Shuowen. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, this writing gradually became the mainstream, and it was slightly deformed with the migration of the times until the regular script was transformed into the "decyl" of the next day.