lüè

6 oz

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sound component
lǜ, lüè to take, to seize

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

6 oz Traditional

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrod
srod

說文解字

十銖二十五分之十三也。从金寽聲。《周禮》曰:“重三鋝。”北方以二十兩爲鋝。

Sources

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