琮
cóngCóng

octagonal piece of jade with hole in middle

Components

王
王 Meaning component
wáng king

jade

宗
宗 Sound component
zōng, zong ancestor, sect

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzuːŋ

說文解字

瑞玉。大八寸，似車釭。从玉宗聲。

Sources

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