oar

Components

Meaning component
tree

wood

Sound component
to whisper

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsjep[ts]əp (MC V!)oar
Zhengzhangʔseb
Unicodetziɛp

說文解字

舟櫂也。从木咠聲。

Sources

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