叟

Alternative forms

 * In Taiwan and Hong Kong, this character and its derived characters are written with (7 strokes) as the upper component while in, this character and its derivatives are written with  (6 strokes) as the upper component.
 * A exists at  (composition:  ) and is encoded for a historical variant found in the Ming dynasty dictionary 《重訂直音篇》.

Derived characters

 * (Note: Different form used in mainland China)
 * (Japanese containing   (⿱  ))

Glyph origin
Originally. – hand holding a torch in the house – original form of.

Since the clerical script, the top components and  have merged into the unrelated.

Definitions

 * 1)  old man; old gentleman
 * 2)    sir