a plant which resembles wheat but has no edible grain

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
jù, qú suddenly

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡa
ɡʷa

說文解字

蘧麥也。从艸遽聲。

Sources

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