楔
xiē

wedge

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

契
契 Sound component
qì, xiè, qiè deed

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsets.qˤetwedge put in teeth of corpse
Zhengzhangkreːd
sqʰeːd

說文解字

櫼也。从木契聲。

Sources

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