Components

Unknown component
chē cart, vehicle
Unknown component
shū weapon or tool
Meaning component
earth

earth

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkeːɡ

說文解字

瓴適也。一曰未燒也。从土毄聲。

Sources

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