a kind of fishing-net

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbreːɡ
peːɡ

說文解字

繴謂之罿,罿謂之罬,罬謂之罦。捕鳥覆車也。从糸辟聲。

Sources

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