昨
zuó HSK1

yesterday

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Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
乍
乍 Sound component
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzak[dz]ˤak yesterday

說文解字

《說文》：“昨，壘日也。从日，乍聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)