salute

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

Sound component
to whisper

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
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsips.qrip (dialect: MC tsr- > ts-)cluster together
ʔjipqipbow (v.), salute
Zhengzhangqib
Unicodeqip

說文解字

攘也。从手咠聲。一曰手箸胷曰揖。

Sources

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