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Glyph origin
Oracle bone script: – an alcohol vessel  placed on a mat.

In the bronze inscriptions, two strokes were sometimes added above the alcohol vessel, representing overflowing alcohol; this is inherited in the small seal script as. In some bronze inscriptions, two horizontal strokes were sometimes also added below the line representing a mat; the strokes sometimes were changed to something like. These two strokes then fused with the mat to give (a table with two legs) in the small seal script. later evolved into by process of libian.

Definitions

 * 1) to set; to lay; to place down
 * 2) to make offerings to the dead; to libate
 * 3) to establish
 * 1) to establish

Definitions

 * 1) fake
 * 1) fake

Usage notes
Usage seen in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions.

Kanji

 * 1) to make offerings
 * 2) to establish

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.