zōu

consult

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsju[ts]oinquire
Zhengzhangʔslo

說文解字

聚謀也。从言取聲。

Sources

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

zōu, zhōu consult Simplified

To receive  advice  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
SoundMeaning component
take

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode