垲
kǎi

high and dry place

Components

土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth

earth

岂
岂 Sound component
qǐ victorious music, happy

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

塏 high and dry place Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhojXC.qʰˤəjʔhigh and dry (place)
Zhengzhangŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ

說文解字

高燥也。从土豈聲。

Sources

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