徙

Derived characters

 * 嘥 𢟎 𢳜 漇 𣘊 褷 縰 蹝 屣 㿅 蓰 簁

Glyph origin
During the Zhou dynasty, 徙 was represented with the phonetic borrowing, with the components 辵 and 止 later being added to differentiate the character used to represent "migration". During the Warring States period, the earlier forms of 屎 consisting of or  components (as seen in  and ) had these portions transform into, however 徙 continued to retain the 少 form. The Chu script form of 屎 corrupted into a form with the ("body") component becoming  ("tail"), while the Qin script form of 徙 omitted the 尸 component of 屎 and left only  remaining. Li Shoukui (2015) however argues that the Chu script ⿸尾少 may not actually be cognate to ⿸尸少 (and ergo 屎). The clerical script form inherited the Qin script form, however had the 少 component mutate into another 止, which coincidentally resulted in the clerical form matching the same character structure as (the Shang dynasty form of ) with an additional 彳 component.

Shuowen Jiezi erroneously takes this mutated clerical script form of 徙 with two 止 components, and claims that it is a. It also omits one of the 止 components to create an alternative form, however no such character exists in ancient writing (although coincidentally it has a similar shape to the Shang and Zhou ). Hu Houxuan (1981) states that the "ancient script" form of 徙 in Shuowen,, comes from a corruption of the variant form featuring 尾 in place of 尸, but with the tail portion misrepresented as. For this reason, the "ancient script" forms of 徙 provided in Shuowen are extremely corrupted.

Li Jiahao (2010) notes that the ancient form of 屎, namely ⿸尸少, may potentially suggest that 徙 is a.

Definitions

 * 1) to move one's abode; to shift; to migrate; to relocate
 * 2) to substitute; to transplant; to swap
 * 3)  to move an object