jié

stone tablet

Components

Meaning component
shí stone

stone

Sound component
hé, è, hè why? what? where?

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangɡrad
ɡad
Unicodeghiæt
ghiɛt

說文解字

特立之石。東海有碣石山。从石曷聲。

Sources

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