yóu

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanglu
sruɡ

說文解字

禮祭,束茅,加于祼圭,而灌鬯酒,是爲莤。象神歆之也。一曰莤,榼上塞也。从酉从艸。《春秋傳》曰:“尔貢包茅不入,王祭不供,無以莤酒。”

Sources

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