duò

alone

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdejH[d]ˤet-ssolitary-growing (tree)
Zhengzhangdeːds
Unicodedhèi

說文解字

樹皃。从木大聲。《詩》曰:“有杕之杜。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica