Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʷaɡ
qʷraːɡ
ɢʷraːɡ

說文解字

《說文》:“蒦,規蒦,商也。从又持雈。一曰,視遽皃;一曰,蒦,度也。彠,蒦或从尋。尋亦度也。《楚詞》曰:‘求矩彠之所同。’”

Sources

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

huò, yuē Simplified

Components

Sound component
xún, xín seek
Meaning component
huò, wò catch, get

measure

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode