sneeze

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
zhì, dì fall

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttejH[t]ˤi[t]-s (< *t.lˤ-?)sneeze
Zhengzhangtiːɡs

說文解字

悟解气也。从口疐聲。《詩》曰:“願言則嚏。”

Sources

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