玫
méi HSK7

rose, fine jade

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Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 文 represents the sound.

Components

玉
玉 Meaning component
文
文 Sound component
Change in sound
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 文 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmɯːl

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica