black and shining

Components

Meaning component
hēi black

black

Sound component
duō much

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔleːl
ʔlil

說文解字

黑木也。从黑多聲。丹陽有黟縣。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica