窖
jiào

pit

Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 告 represents the sound.

Components

穴
穴 Meaning component
xué, jué cave
告
告 Sound component
gào tell

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkæwHkˤruk-scave
Zhengzhangkruːɡs

說文解字

地藏也。从穴告聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)