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Glyph origin
– holding a fountain pen resembling

Etymology

 * "to send, to employ, to cause"
 * Causative derivation of "envoy ", "jail-official" , "marriage go-between", which is perhaps the same word as  "to administer" ; the sense "scribe, historian" is derived from this.


 * "scribe, historian"
 * Possibly from ; compared, , , and  to 🇨🇬 & its derivatives 🇨🇬, in turn related to ; with Sino-Tibetan causative *s- corresponding to Khmer causative *p-.
 * Alternatively, and  derived  "scribe, secretary" from  "to mark, to draw lines", which, while cognate with 🇨🇬, apparently never meant "to write, to record".

Definitions

 * 1) history
 * 2)  court historian; scribe
 * 3) historical record; book recording history
 * 1)  court historian; scribe
 * 2) historical record; book recording history
 * 1) historical record; book recording history
 * 1) historical record; book recording history
 * 1) historical record; book recording history

Kanji

 * 1) record, recording
 * 2) history

Etymology
From.