kuà

pelvis

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

flesh

Sound component
kuā exaggerate

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰʷraː
kʰʷraːs
kʰʷaːs

說文解字

股也。从肉夸聲。

Sources

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