huò

pour down

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangɢʷraːɡs
ɢʷaːɡ
qʷraːɡ
Unicodehuɑk

說文解字

雨流霤下。从水蒦聲。

Sources

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