xiū

dried meat (used as teachers payment in ancient times)

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Sound component
yōu distant
Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsjuws-liw dried meat

說文解字

《說文》:“脩,脯也。从肉,攸聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica