涉
shè HSK6

wade

Depicts taking steps (步) through water (氵).

Components

氵
氵 Iconic component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

步
步 Iconic component
bù step

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Iconic (4)

频濒頻瀕

Remnant (2)

频頻

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangdjeb
teːb
Unicodezhiɛp

說文解字

《說文》：“，徒行厲水也。从沝，从步。涉，篆文从水。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)