shuò

melt

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
lè, yuè happy, music

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyakr̥ ewk (W dialect: *r̥ - > *x-, palatalizing)melt, infuse
Zhengzhangqʰljawɢ
Unicodeshiɑk

說文解字

銷金也。从金樂聲。

Sources

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

shuò, yuè, lì melt Simplified

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
lè, yuè happy, music

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode