yǒu

window

Components

Unknown component
piàn, piān slice
Meaning component
hù, hu door

door

Unknown component
fu begin

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartyuwX[l]uʔwindow
Zhengzhangluʔ
Unicodeiǒu

說文解字

穿壁以木爲交窻也。从片、戶、甫。譚長以爲:甫上日也,非戶也。牖,所以見日。

Sources

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