aid

Components

Meaning component
rén person

person

Sound component
second, next

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsl̥ʰis

說文解字

便利也。从人次聲。《詩》曰:“決拾旣佽。”一曰遞也。

Sources

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