sorrow

Components

Meaning component
wǎng net or eye
Sound component
wéi but

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlje[r]aj drag into; trouble

說文解字

《說文新附》:“罹,心憂也。从网,未詳,古多通用離。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica