zǎo

pearl pendants on coronet

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsaːwʔ

說文解字

玉飾。如水藻之文。从玉喿聲。《虞書》曰:“璪火黺米。”

Sources

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