楣
méi

crossbeam above or under gate

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

眉
眉 Sound component
méi eyebrows

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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmril

說文解字

秦名屋𣝼聯也。齊謂之檐，楚謂之梠。从木眉聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)