dié

young melons just forming

Components

Meaning component
guā melon

melon

Sound component
shī lose

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'iːɡ

說文解字

㼎也。从瓜失聲。《詩》曰:“緜緜瓜瓞。”

Sources

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