蔞
lóu

artemisia stelleriana

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
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangroː
ro
roʔ

說文解字

艸也。可以亨魚。从艸婁聲。

Sources

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

蒌 lóu, lǚ, jù artemisia stelleriana Simplified

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

娄
娄 Sound component
lóu, lǚ, lǘ surname

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode