a small door or window

Components

Meaning component
xué, jué cave

hole

Sound component
yú, shù surname

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'oː
l'oːs
lo

說文解字

穿木戶也。从穴俞聲。一曰空中也。

Sources

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