chū

a kind of animal like a tiger

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰl'o
Unicodetjio

說文解字

貙獌,似貍者。从豸區聲。

Sources

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

chū a kind of animal like a tiger Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

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