granary

Components

广
广 Meaning component
guǎng roof

building

Sound component
yú, yǔ, yǒng moment

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartyuX[ɢ](r)oʔstacks of grain in the field
Zhengzhangloʔ
Unicode

說文解字

水槽倉也。从广臾聲。一曰倉無屋者。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica