cover

Pictograph of a piece of cloth covering something.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (1 of 13 verified)

Unknown (0 of 10 verified)

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmeːɡ

說文解字

《說文》:“冖,覆也。从一下垂也。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.612
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica