賒

Glyph origin
Originally written as, which is a – to buy or sell on credit.

In the era of Middle Chinese, a vulgar form, also a with phonetic component  that was more similar-sounding to the character, once appeared but never became popularized.

The current form 賒 appeared as a vulgar form at the Ming-Qing transition and is a with phonetic component  that is similar-sounding to the character.

Etymology
According to STEDT, from (whence also  & ); if so, Chinese vocalism might have been influenced by superficially similar words like.

is its derivative with terminative suffix *-ŋ;, minimally reconstructed as *lhas ~ *m-las, is another with *-s > *-h extrovert suffix (ibid.).

🇨🇬's possible relation to (ibid.) is through its cognate, wherefrom arose 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, & 🇨🇬

Lastly, ) proposes cognacy to 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) to buy and sell on credit
 * 2)  to forgive
 * 3)  distant; far
 * 4)   long; long-standing
 * 5)  sparse; rare
 * 6)  slow
 * 1)  sparse; rare
 * 2)  slow

Han character

 * 1) far