huī

ceremonial gowns of a queen

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰʷɯl

說文解字

蔽厀也。从衣韋聲。《周禮》曰:“王后之服褘衣。”謂畫袍。

Sources

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

huī, yī ceremonial gowns of a queen Simplified

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