screen

A cloth  door  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
hù, hu door
SoundMeaning component
clothes

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqɯlʔ

說文解字

戶牖之閒謂之扆。从戶衣聲。

Sources

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