衙
yáyú

public office

Phonosemantic compound. 行 represents the meaning and 吾 represents the sound.

Components

行
行 Meaning component
xíng, háng walk
吾
吾 Sound component
wú, yú, yá I, me

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangŋraː
ŋa
ŋaʔ

說文解字

行皃。从行吾聲。

Sources

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