紵
zhù

ramie

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdrjoXmə-draʔramie; flax
Zhengzhangdaʔ

說文解字

檾屬。細者爲絟，粗者爲紵。从糸宁聲。

Sources

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

纻 zhù, shū ramie Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode