coarse cotton cloth used for mourning

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsnɯ

說文解字

十五升布也。一曰兩麻一絲布也。从糸思聲。

Sources

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

coarse cotton cloth used for mourning Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
sī, si think

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode