qín

salt marsh plant

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
jīn now

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡrɯm

說文解字

艸也。从艸今聲。《詩》曰:“食野之芩。”

Sources

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