柙
xiá

cage

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

甲
甲 Sound component
jiǎ, jia 1st heavenly stem, fingernail

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 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-Sagarthæp[ɡ]ˤr[a]pcage; box
Zhengzhangɡraːb

說文解字

檻也。以藏虎兕。从木甲聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)