tāo HSK6

take out

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl̥ʰuː

說文解字

捾也。从手舀聲。《周書》曰:“師乃搯。”搯者,拔兵刃以習擊刺。《詩》曰:“左旋右搯。”

Sources

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