shà

light rain

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
rain
Sound component
qiè concubine

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsreːb
sreb

說文解字

小雨也。从雨妾聲。

Sources

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