xiē

smoke or flames from fire

Components

Meaning component
quǎn dog

dog

Sound component
hé, è, hè why? what? where?

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰob
qʰaːd
qʰad

說文解字

短喙犬也。从犬曷聲。《詩》曰:“載獫猲獢。”《爾雅》曰:“短喙犬謂之猲獢。”

Sources

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