蒜苔

蒜 suàn garlic

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

herb

祘
祘 Sound component
suàn to calculate

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartswanH[s]ˤor-sgarlic
Zhengzhangsloːns

說文解字

葷菜。从艸祘聲。

Sources

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

苔 tái, tāi moss

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 台 represents the sound.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

台
台 Sound component
tái platform

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangl'ɯː
Unicodedhəi

Sources

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