river in northern china

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
road

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangraːɡs

說文解字

冀州浸也。上黨有潞縣。从水路聲。

Sources

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