songs

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartduwlˤoa kind of song
Zhengzhangl'oː
lo

說文解字

歌也。从欠俞聲。《切韻》云:“巴歈,歌也。”案:《史記》:渝水之人善歌舞,漢高祖采其聲。後人因加此字。

Sources

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