姒
sìSì

elder sister

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Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 以 represents the sound.

Components

女
女 Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman
以
以 Sound component
yǐ by means of
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica