xiè​tào

unharness

xiè lay down

Right half of .

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsjaeHs-qʰA(ʔ)-s to unload

說文解字

《說文》:“卸,舍車解馬也。从卪、止、午。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

tào cover

A cover has to be big () and long () enough to wrap around what it is covering.

Components

Meaning component
dà, dài big
Meaning component
cháng long

is a component form of .

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtʰaːw
tʰaːws

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang