Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
to compare

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbi
bis

說文解字

艸也。一曰芘茮木。从艸比聲。

Sources

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