薳
wěiWěi

polygala (a medical herb)

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

herb

遠
遠 Sound component
yuǎn distant

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɢʷalʔ

說文解字

艸也。《左氏傳》：“楚大夫薳子馮。”从艸逺聲。

Sources

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

䓕 wěi, tuǒ, yuǎn polygala (a medical herb) Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode