HSK7

weed

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartthejHl̥ ˤij-sclear weeds
Zhengzhangl̥ʰiːs
ljiʔ
l'iʔ

說文解字

除艸也。《明堂月令》曰:“季夏燒薙。”从艸雉聲。

Sources

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