貘
mò

the panther

Components

豸
豸 Meaning component
zhì (dhole), beast

beast

莫
莫 Sound component
mò, mo do not

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmraːɡ

說文解字

似熊而黃黑色，出蜀中。从豸莫聲。

Sources

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