tǎng

a treasury

Records kept on cloth  by servants 

Components

Meaning component
slave
Meaning component
jīn cloth

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangn̥ʰaːŋʔ
naː

說文解字

金幣所藏也。从巾奴聲。

Sources

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