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Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshjeX[tsʰ]e(j)ʔclear (adj.)
Zhengzhangsʰeːʔ
sʰeʔ

說文解字

清也。从水此聲。

Sources

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