a supply cart

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsrɯ
sʰrɯ

說文解字

軿車前,衣車後也。从車甾聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

zī, zì a supply cart Simplified

Components

Meaning component
chē cart, vehicle

cart

Sound component
zāi, zī container

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode