澮
kuài

irrigation ditch

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwajH[k]ˤop-swatering channel, drain
Zhengzhangkoːbs

說文解字

水。出靃山，西南入汾。从水會聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

浍 huì, kuài, huá irrigation ditch Simplified

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

会
会 Sound component
huì, kuài to gather

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode