羿

legendary archer

A man drawing an arrow 

Components

Meaning component
feather
Meaning component
gǒng two hands

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartngejH[ŋ]ˤer-s(name of legendary archer)
Zhengzhangŋeːs
Unicodengèi

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica