沮
jǔ HSK7

stop

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

且
且 Sound component
qiě moreover

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

菹

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzjoX[dz]aʔstop, prevent
Zhengzhangʔsa
ʔsas
sʰa
zaʔ
ʔsra
Unicodedzhiǔ
tsiu
tziù

說文解字

水。出漢中房陵，東入江。从水且聲。

Sources

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