coarse pongee

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
dì, di younger brother

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

coarse pongee Traditional

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdiːl

說文解字

厚繒也。从糸弟聲。

Sources

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