yún

bamboo skin

Components

Meaning component
zhú bamboo

bamboo

Sound component
jūn equal

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwin[ɢ]ʷri[n]rind of bamboo
Zhengzhangɡʷin
Unicodehyun

說文解字

竹皮也。从竹均聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica