wàng

travel

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthjwangX[ɢ]ʷaŋʔfrighten
hjwangHɢʷaŋʔ-sgo
Zhengzhangkʷaŋʔ
kʰʷaŋ
ɡʷaŋ
ɢʷaŋs

說文解字

往也。从辵王聲。《春秋傳》曰:“子無我迋。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica