胃

Glyph origin
According to Shuowen Jiezi, the character (note that this Unicode character has undergone libian simplification) atop  is a  of a stomach. While the bronze script form merely consisted of two concentric circles, an inner portion of the character was later added, namely a mutated form of the seal script character of ("rice"), representing grains within the stomach. A component (modern radical form ⺼, not to be confused with the unrelated ) was added to specialise the character. Upon transition to the clerical script form, the upper component was simplified to.

The ancient form of the character can be seen within the lower component of.

Definitions

 * 1) stomach
 * 2) gizzard of fowl
 * 3)   Stomach Mansion

Kanji

 * 1) stomach

Etymology
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From.

Noun

 * 1) stomach

Proper noun

 * 1)  Stomach Mansion one of the

Affix

 * 1) stomach

Derived terms

 * : gastric juice
 * : gastric ulcer
 * gastric cancer
 * : gastric acid
 * : stomach and intestines

Etymology
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