烙
làoluò

brand

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
各
各 Sound component
gè each

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡ·raːɡ

說文解字

灼也。从火各聲。

Sources

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