làoLào

hanker

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangruːw
rɯːws
Unicodelɑ̀u

說文解字

婟也。从女翏聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica