芪
qí

celery

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

氏
氏 Sound component
shì clan

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡe

說文解字

芪母也。从艸氏聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)