sword

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmaːɡ

說文解字

鏌釾也。从金莫聲。

Sources

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

sword Simplified

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
mò, mo do not

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode