䍃
yáo

vase, pitcher

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Phonosemantic compound. 缶 represents the meaning and ⺼ represents the sound.

Components

⺼
⺼ Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to ⺼ than it was in ancient scripts.
缶
缶 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyewlaw eartheware

說文解字

《說文》：“，瓦器也。从缶，肉聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)