纣紂

纣紂 in English

zhòu: crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 紂, the traditional character: 纣 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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