crack

Components

Meaning component
valley, ravine

valley

Sound component
hill, place

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkhjæk[k]ʰrak(place and family name)
Zhengzhangkʰraɡ
Unicodekiɑk

說文解字

晉大夫叔虎邑也。从邑谷聲。

Sources

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