氐

Usage notes
As a component of complex characters, may have sense of “down, low” from the bowing, stooping figure, as in 低 and 底; compare more abstract 下.

Glyph origin
– as with 氏, but with an empty circle (then a line, today either a line or a point) underneath: a bowing figure standing on the ground or depicted while lifting something from the ground.

Definitions

 * 1)  ethnic group
 * 2)    one of

Readings
From :

From :

Etymology
From, compare modern 🇨🇬.

Used in as  kana for.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Root, one of the
 * 2)  Di: an ancient ethnic group in western China
 * 1)  Di: an ancient ethnic group in western China

Hanja

 * 1) foundation; basis; origin