zhuó

to sprout

Sprouting  grass  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass
SoundMeaning component
chū go out

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsrjwets-[k]rotsprout (v.)
tsrwɛts-[k]rot (tsrj- > tsr-)sprout (v.)
Zhengzhangʔl'ɯd
skruːd
skrod
skrud

說文解字

艸初生出地皃。从艸出聲。《詩》曰:“彼茁者葭。”

Sources

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