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In the bronze script, it was attested as 𬔧, an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 章(“jade ornament”) + 丮(“to hold”) – holding a jade ornament > “to bestow”. The 丮 component corrupts into 欠 or 次, and later to 夂 or a variant with 二 under 夂. An additional semantic component 貝 (“cowrie; money”) was often added. The 二 and 貝 components combine to form an emergent phonetic component 貢 (OC *koːŋs).
Shuowen reinterprets it as a phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms) : abbreviated phonetic 竷(OC *kʰluːms) + semantic 貝(“shell; money”), but this is not supported by earlier scripts.