old woman

A woman  watching over her ward 

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman
Meaning component
area

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangqos
Unicodeqiò

說文解字

母也。从女區聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

yù, yǔ, kōu old woman Simplified

A woman  watching over her ward 

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman
Meaning component
area

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode