the countenance changing

Components

Sound component
not
Meaning component
color

color

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartbwot[b]ˤ[u]tannoyed looks
phjutpʰ[u]tannoyed looks
Zhengzhangbɯːd
pʰɯd

說文解字

色艴如也。从色弗聲。《論語》曰:“色艴如也。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica