a kind of water-beetle cash

Components

Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

insect

Sound component
fu, fū man

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangba

說文解字

青蚨,水蟲,可還錢。从虫夫聲。

Sources

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