shū

a beautiful girl

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
zhū, shū red pigment

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtʰjo

說文解字

好也。从女朱聲。

Sources

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