maple

Components

Meaning component
tree

tree

Sound component
qi battle-axe, sorrow, grief, relative

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔslɯwɢ

說文解字

木。可作大車輮。从木戚聲。

Sources

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