tāo

silk braid

Components

Sound component
yōu distant
Meaning component
mì, sī silk

silk

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangl̥ʰɯːw
Unicodetɑu

說文解字

《說文》:“絛,扁緒也。从糸,攸聲。”

Sources

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

tāo, dí silk braid Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
tiáo clause

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode