liú sulfur

Components

Meaning component
shí stone

mineral

Sound component
liú birth

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangru

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

huáng sulphur

A yellow  mineral  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
shí stone
SoundMeaning component
huáng yellow

Character Evolution

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

說文解字

銅鐵樸石也。从石黃聲。讀若穬。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica