玖
jiǔ

black-colored jade

Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 久 represents the sound.

Components

王
王 Meaning component
wáng king
久
久 Sound component
jiǔ long time (ago)

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʷlɯʔ

說文解字

石之次玉黑色者。从玉久聲。《詩》曰：“貽我佩玖。”讀若芑。或曰若人句脊之句。

Sources

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