jewel in shape of tiger

A tiger's eye  stone  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
wáng king
SoundMeaning component
hǔ, hu tiger

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰlaːʔ
Unicode

說文解字

發兵瑞玉,爲虎文。从玉从虎,虎亦聲。《春秋傳》曰:“賜子家雙琥。”

Sources

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