cabinet

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartduwklˤokcoffer; box
Zhengzhangl'oːɡ

說文解字

匱也。从木賣聲。一曰木名。又曰:大梡也。

Sources

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

cabinet Simplified

Components

Meaning component
tree

wood

Sound component
mài, mai sell

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode