peduncle or stem of plants

Variant of .

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangteːds
Unicodedèi

說文解字

《說文》:“蔕,瓜當也。从艸,帶聲。”

Sources

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