tíng

stalks of grasses

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
tíng court

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'eːŋ
l'eːŋʔ

說文解字

莖也。从艸廷聲。

Sources

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