bottle gourd

Components

Sound component
kuā exaggerate
Meaning component
guā melon

gourd

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthuH[ɢ]ʷˤa-sbottle-gourd, melon
Zhengzhangɡʷlaː
ɡʷlaːs

說文解字

匏也。从瓜夸聲。凡瓠之屬皆从瓠。

Sources

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