zhuì

climb down rope

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
zhuī pursue

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

climb down rope Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdols

說文解字

以繩有所縣也。《春秋傳》曰:“夜縋納師。”从糸追聲。

Sources

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