flutter

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbajH[b]ˤ[a][t]-sstreamer, flutter
Zhengzhangpaːds
bads
bad

說文解字

艸葉多。从艸伐聲。《春秋傳》曰:“晉糴茷。”

Sources

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