zhuā

to dress the hair

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsrwæ[ts]ˤrojhair knot for mourning
Zhengzhangʔsroːl

說文解字

喪結。《禮》:女子髽衰,弔則不髽。魯臧武仲與齊戰于狐鮐,魯人迎喪者,始髽。从髟坐聲。

Sources

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