mountain

Components

Sound component
I
Meaning component
shēn two mountains standing side by side

mountain

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'aː

說文解字

《說文》:“嵞,會稽山。一曰九江當嵞也。民以辛、壬、癸、甲之日嫁娶。从屾,余聲。”

Sources

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