鞅
yāngyàng

leather strap over horse's neck

Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.

Components

革
革 Meaning component
gé leather
央
央 Sound component
yāng beg

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqaŋ
qaŋʔ
qaŋs

說文解字

頸靼也。从革央聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)