雩
yú

offer sacrifice for rain

To sacrifice 亏 for rain 雨; 雨 also provides the pronunciation

Components

雨
雨 SoundMeaning component
yǔ rain
亏
亏 Meaning component
kuī deficit, lose

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

樗

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthju[ɢ]ʷ(r)asacrifice for rain
Zhengzhangqʰʷla
ɢʷla

說文解字

夏祭，樂于赤帝，以祈甘雨也。从雨于聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)