蓼
liǎolù

smartweed

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

翏
翏 Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrɯːwʔ
rɯwɢ

說文解字

辛菜，薔虞也。从艸翏聲。

Sources

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