river in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

西
西 Sound component
xi, xī west
Unknown component
tree

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangriɡ
Unicodelit

說文解字

水。出丹陽溧陽縣。从水栗聲。

Sources

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