thatch

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
to whisper

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsib
sʰib
zib

說文解字

茨也。从艸咠聲。

Sources

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