彞

Han character

 * 1)  people

Glyph origin
– a bird or slave with its wings or hands tied, offered for sacrifice with two hands. The bird or slave's head is represented by, the body now by (no connection to “rice”), the string that ties the wings or hands by , and the two hands by. The component is stated to be a phonetic in Shuowen.

Definitions

 * 1) ritual vessel in ancestral halls
 * 2) wine vessel
 * 3) rule; convention
 * 4)  Yi, an ethnic group living primarily in the mountainous areas of southwest China