yóudiào

Avena nuda

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
yōu distant

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'ɯːws

說文解字

艸田器。从艸,條省聲。《論語》曰:“以杖荷莜。”今作蓧。

Sources

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