椟
dú

cabinet

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

卖
卖 Sound component
mài, mai sell

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

櫝 cabinet Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartduwklˤokcoffer; box
Zhengzhangl'oːɡ

說文解字

匱也。从木賣聲。一曰木名。又曰：大梡也。

Sources

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