lěi

puppet

Components

Meaning component
rén person

person

Sound component
léi thunder

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangruːl
ruːlʔ
ruːls

說文解字

相敗也。从人畾聲。讀若雷。

Sources

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