quèsháo

peony

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
sháo, shuò, zhuó spoon

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡleːwʔ
spʰlewɢ
pl'ewɢ
bljewɢ
pleːwɢ

說文解字

鳧茈也。从艸勺聲。

Sources

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