niān

withered

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
yān, yí thereupon

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqran
qan

說文解字

菸也。从艸焉聲。

Sources

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