Origin

This character combines a walking radical on the left, which suggests movement or a person in motion, with the component meaning skin on the right, which serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation. The walking element establishes that the character relates to a person or someone moving through space, while the skin component doesn't contribute to the meaning but rather indicates roughly how the character should sound. Together, these parts formed a character that came to mean "that person" or "he," capturing the idea of pointing to or indicating someone else.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).