xià

crack

The sound  of pottery  breaking

Components

Meaning component
fǒu pottery
Meaning component
hū, hú, hù to cry

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰraːs

說文解字

裂也。从缶虖聲。缶燒善裂也。

Sources

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