Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 喿 represents the sound.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | saw | [m.s]ˤaw | fat of swine or dog |
| Zhengzhang | saːw | ||
| saːws | |||
| Unicode | sɑu |
說文解字
豕膏臭也。从肉喿聲。
Sources
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)