cōng

turquoise

Components

Meaning component
wáng king

jade

Sound component
cōng agitated

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰloːŋ

說文解字

石之似玉者。从玉悤聲。讀若蔥。

Sources

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