Amazing Chinese Characters (825) Entangled - 丩

The shell bone script of character for Entangled 

Two hooks or two ropes are entangled together. 

The bronze script of character for Entangled

Similar to shell bone script.

The small seal script of character for Entangled

Similar to older scripts, just more curves.

The standard script of character for Entangled 

I assume that the left is from the top hook, the right vertical straight line is from the bottom hook. Anyway, it would be impossible to know what it is if we had not had known the old scripts.

The Pinyin of the character is Jiu1.

The character is not used any more, it is replaced buy 纠 (Post 721). It is still exist in dictionary. More over, it is exist in some compound characters, such as 纠，赳，叫，收，etc.