胶氨芹膠氨芹 in English

Character breakdown

• 胶膠 jiāo to glue
• 氨 ān ammonia
• 芹 qín Chinese celery

How it used to be written

胶

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

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 5 forms

芹

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Small seal script

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