glistening plumage

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwk[ɡ]ˤrawkwhite (of birds)
Zhengzhangqʰraːwɢ
ɡraːwɢ
ɡoːwɢ

說文解字

鳥白肥澤皃。从羽高聲。《詩》云:“白鳥翯翯。”

Sources

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