zhě

reddish brown

Components

Meaning component
chì red

red

Sound component
zhě one who...

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyaeXtAʔred earth; red pigment
Zhengzhangtjaːʔ
Unicodejiǎ

說文解字

赤土也。从赤者聲。

Sources

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