to ditch

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
xuè, xiě blood

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxwikm̥ (r)ikchannel; moat
Zhengzhangqʰʷɯɡ

說文解字

十里爲成。成閒廣八尺、深八尺謂之洫。从水血聲。《論語》曰:“盡力于溝洫。”

Sources

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