yù​zhí

threshold

threshold Simplified

Separated  by a gate 

Components

Meaning component
mén, men door
Meaning component
huò or

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

zhí price

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
rén person

is a component form of .

Sound component
zhí straight

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdriHm-t<r>ək-s hold upright

說文解字

《說文》:“值,措也。从人,直聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

threshold Traditional

Separated  by a gate 

Components

Meaning component
mén, men door
Meaning component
huò or

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰʷrɯɡ

說文解字

門榍也。从門或聲。《論語》曰:“行不履閾。”

Sources

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