skull

Components

Meaning component
gǔ, gú bone

bone

Sound component
shǔ short name for Sichuan

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdoːɡ

說文解字

髑髏,頂也。从骨蜀聲。

Sources

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