piào

fast

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
piào slip of paper or bamboo

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpʰew

說文解字

疾也。从口𤐫聲。《詩》曰:“匪車嘌兮。”

Sources

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