jiē

music

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
jiē all

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkɛjkˤrəjcold
Zhengzhangkriːl

說文解字

鳥鳴聲。从口皆聲。一曰鳳皇鳴聲喈喈。

Sources

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