褚
chǔzhǔ

bag

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components

衤
衤 Meaning component
yī clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

者
者 Sound component
zhě one who...

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttrjoXtraʔto store, to heap
Zhengzhangtaʔ
tʰaʔ

說文解字

卒也。从衣者聲。一曰製衣。

Sources

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