fright

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxjækqʰrakfear
Zhengzhangsqʰraːɡ
qʰraɡ

說文解字

《易》:“履虎尾虩虩。”恐懼。一曰蠅虎也。从虎𡭴聲。

Sources

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