zháZhá

thunder

The sound  of a storm 

Components

Meaning component
rain
Meaning component
yán speech

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsluːb
rloːb
ɦroːb
ʔljob

說文解字

霅霅,震電皃。一曰眾言也。从雨,譶省聲。

Sources

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