strain

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
to carve wood

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangroːɡ
roɡ

Sources

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

strain Simplified

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
copy

Historical Pronunciations

Middle Chinese
Unicodeliok
luk

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode