inferior kind of jade

Possibly jade  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
wáng king
SoundMeaning component
able to

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰaːl
Unicode

說文解字

玉也。从玉可聲。

Sources

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