chuò

sad

Components

Meaning component
xin, xīn heart

heart

Sound component
zhuó, yǐ, lì to connect, to join together

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtod

說文解字

憂也。从心叕聲。《詩》曰:“憂心惙惙。”一曰意不定也。

Sources

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