榱
cuī

rafter

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

衰
衰 Sound component
shuāi decline

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
Zhengzhangsrul

說文解字

秦名爲屋椽，周謂之榱，齊魯謂之桷。从木衰聲。

Sources

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