HSK7

grow

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
zī, cí now

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsi[ts]əabundant
Zhengzhangʔsɯ
Unicodetziə

說文解字

益也。从水兹聲。一曰滋水,出牛飲山白陘谷,東入呼沱。

Sources

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