the green bamboo

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartljowk[r]ok(name of a plant)
Zhengzhangroɡ
Unicodeliok

說文解字

王芻也。从艸录聲。《詩》曰:“菉竹猗猗。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica