qiāo

barren land

Components

Meaning component
shí stone

stone

Sound component
yáo a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

barren land Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkhæw[C.q]ʰˤrewstony soil
Zhengzhangŋ̊ʰreːw
ŋreːws
ŋ̊ʰeːwʔ

說文解字

礊石也。从石堯聲。

Sources

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