shuò

musical instrument like pan-pipes

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangseːw
sleːw

說文解字

以竿擊人也。从竹削聲。虞舜樂曰箾韶。

Sources

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