water caltrop

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
zhī support, hold up

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgjeH[ɡ]re-swater-chestnut
Zhengzhangɡres
Unicodeghyiɛ̀

說文解字

蔆也。从艸支聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica