HSK7

crack

A crack  dividing two things provides the pronunciation

Components

Sound component
hill, place
Meaning component
xiǎo small
Meaning component
sun
Meaning component
xiǎo small

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkhjæk[k]ʰrakcrack (n.)
Zhengzhangkʰraɡ
Unicodekiæk

說文解字

壁際孔也。从𨸏从𡭴,𡭴亦聲。

Sources

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