fat

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

meat

Sound component
nèi inside

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrnuːd
nuːd
nuɡ

說文解字

朔而月見東方謂之縮肭。从月内聲。

Sources

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