suō

rain coat made of straw

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
shuāi decline

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartswa[s]ˤojraincoat of straw of rush
Zhengzhangsloːl
sluːl
Unicodesuɑ

Sources

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