荑
tíyí

sprouts

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

weed

夷
夷 Sound component
yí ancient barbarian tribes

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdejlˤəjyoung shoot
Zhengzhangl'iːl
lil
Unicodedhei

說文解字

艸也。从艸夷聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)