繮

reins

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkaŋ

說文解字

馬紲也。从糸畺聲。

Sources

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

缰 jiāng reins Simplified

Components

纟
纟 Meaning component
mì silk

thread

畺
畺 Sound component
jiāng, jiàng boundary

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode