舒
shū HSK2

relax

Phonosemantic compound. 舍 represents the meaning and 予 represents the sound.

Components

舍
舍 Meaning component
shě, shè residence
予
予 Sound component
yǔ give
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyol̥a slow, easy

說文解字

《說文》：“舒，伸也。从舍，从予，予亦聲。一曰：舒，緩也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)