The character 卂 is an old form of 迅, meaning swift and rapid.
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history
卂 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It originally pictured fast flight and was an early form later written 迅 (rapid). Today it survives only as the phonetic element inside 迅.
register
Archaic; appears in etymology notes and ancient texts, never in everyday writing or speech.
Components
pictograph
卂xùn
swift flight
卂 is a simple early graph suggesting rapid darting flight. It is not analyzed into parts; it functions today only as the sound element of 迅, where the 辶 motion radical is added.
Filed under radical 十 (shí, #24) by convention. 十 is not a separate component in 卂, so no strokes are highlighted.
