xiá

whetstone

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shí stone
Sound component
jiǎ, xiá false

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡraː

說文解字

《說文》:“碬,厲石也,从石叚聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘鄭公孫碬,字子石。’”

Sources

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