霅
zhá

thunder

The sound 言 of a storm 雨

Components

雨
雨 Meaning component
yǔ rain
言
言 Meaning component
yán speech

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsluːb
rloːb
ɦroːb
ʔljob

說文解字

霅霅,震電皃。一曰眾言也。从雨,譶省聲。

Sources

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