垢
gòu

dirt

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 后 represents the sound.

Components

土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth
后
后 Sound component
hòu queen, after

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːʔ
Unicodegǒu

說文解字

濁也。从土后聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)