name of river

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
to have children

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangluɡ

說文解字

水。出弘農盧氏山,東南入海。从水育聲。或曰出酈山西。

Sources

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