water-chestnuts

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
even

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

water-chestnuts Traditional

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
even, uniform

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzejXdzˤ[ə]jʔCapsella bursa-pastoris
Zhengzhangzliːlʔ
zlil
Unicodedzhi

說文解字

蒺棃也。从艸齊聲。《詩》曰:“牆有薺。”

Sources

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