kuí

sunflower

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
guǐ 10th heavenly stem

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgjwijgʷij mallow

說文解字

《說文》:“葵,菜也。从艸,癸聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica