pacify

Components

Sound component
rice
Meaning component
tap

script

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmjieXme[j]ʔachieve
Zhengzhangmeʔ

說文解字

撫也。从攴米聲。《周書》曰:“亦未克敉公功。”讀若弭。

Sources

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