skull

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
page
Sound component
lú, lǘ, léi rice vessel

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

skull Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
(head), page
Sound component
rice vessel

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangb·raː

說文解字

𩑒顱,首骨也。从頁盧聲。

Sources

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