shuò

spear

Components

Sound component
shuò first day of lunar month
Meaning component
tree

wood

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsraːwɢ

說文解字

矛也。从木朔聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica