kǎi

high and dry place

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
victorious music, happy

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

high and dry place Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhojXC.qʰˤəjʔhigh and dry (place)
Zhengzhangŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ

說文解字

高燥也。从土豈聲。

Sources

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