type of jade

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
wáng king
Sound component
its, his, (3p possessive)

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡɯ

Sources

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