sǒu

to set a dog on

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰoːɡs
soːʔ
soːɡs

說文解字

使犬聲。从口族聲。《春秋傳》曰:“公嗾夫獒。”

Sources

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