袤
mào

longitude

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 矛 represents the sound.

Components

衣
衣 Meaning component
yī clothes
矛
矛 Sound component
máo spear

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmus

說文解字

衣帶以上。从衣矛聲。一曰南北曰袤，東西曰廣。

Sources

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