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Uncle Hanzi (汉字叔叔）
richard.sears.tn@gmail.com
http://www.chineseetymology.org

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I give talks online and in person on the history of Chinese characters, in English and in Chinese.

I teach ESL online and edit technical and scientific papers in English.

Character: 爪

Simplified (簡體字):
Unicode := 722A
GB2312-80 := D7A6

Simplification (簡化方法):
no simplification
traditional = simplified

Traditional (繁體字):
Unicode := 722A
Big5 := A4F6

Etymology (文字來源):
Remnant Primitive, Hand or claw 爫爪 grabbing something from above

Mandarin (普通話): Chinese

Cantonese (廣東話): Analyze

Taiwanese (臺灣話): Analyze

Shanghaiese (上海話): Analyze

Japanese (日本話): Analyze

Korean (韩国話): Analyze Listen

ShuoWen: (說文解字):
丮也覆手曰爪象形凡爪之屬皆從爪