yì​zhòu

descendants

progeny

Components

Sound component
clothes
Meaning component
jiǒng, jiōng bright window

bright

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartyejHl[a][t]-sposterity; border
Zhengzhangleds

說文解字

衣裾也。从衣㕯聲。

Sources

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

zhòu helmet

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as , which depicts a helmet worn by warriors.

Components

SoundIconic component
yóu cause

Depicts a kind of helmet worn by warriors.

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'ɯwɢs

說文解字

《說文》:“胄,胤也。从肉,由聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica