tái

soot

Components

Sound component
tái platform
Meaning component
huǒ fire

fire

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'ɯː

說文解字

灰,炱煤也。从火台聲。

Sources

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