㪔

㪔 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木卜水 (DDYE), composition ⿰林攴)

1. (same as 散) scatter, disperse, break up or separate for a time, dismiss

• 𢴻, 𣀙, 𣀧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 472, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1464, character 3
• Unihan data for U+3A94

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 林 (“trees, forest”) + 攴 (“to knock, to tap”), also written with hemp stalks 𣏟 (> 𢽳) or bamboo 竹 instead of two trees. The original meanings are "to clear a place from vegetation; to kill". The character later started meaning "to dissipate, to disperse" since bamboo in particular breaks easily into pieces; eventually, the meaning shifted to "to walk around, to stroll".

This character is the original form of 散, originally written as 𣀙 as seen in the Shuowen Jiezi.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjwar ~ g/b-sjwa-n/t (“flow; pour; scatter; spill; sow; broadcast”). Cognate with 撒 (OC *saːd, “to cast away; to let go”), 宣 (OC *sqʰon, “to spread; to proclaim”), Tibetan འཆོར་བ ('chor ba, “to escape; to flow out”), Burmese သွန် (swan, “to pour out; to spill”), Lahu šē (“to sow; to broadcast”), Lahu šêʔ (“to pour; to spill; to disperse; to sow; to broadcast”).

㪔

1. to clear a place from vegetation
2. to kill