Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
to give

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartphejHpʰˤi[t]-sluxuriant
Zhengzhangpʰrids

說文解字

水。出汝南弋陽垂山,東入淮。从水𢌿聲。

Sources

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