méi

water's edge

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
méi eyebrows

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmril

說文解字

水艸交爲湄。从水眉聲。

Sources

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