xiá

small box

Components

Meaning component
fāng, fàng box

box

Sound component
jiǎ, jia 1st heavenly stem, fingernail

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthæp[ɡ]ˤr[a]pbox
Zhengzhangɡraːb
Unicodehap

說文解字

匱也。从匚甲聲。

Sources

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