to die

Components

Meaning component
dǎi, è, dāi evil, bad

death

Sound component
qiě moreover

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzaː

說文解字

往、死也。从歺且聲。《虞書》曰:“勛乃殂。”

Sources

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