頊
xūXū

grieved

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 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-Sagartxjowkqʰ(r)okdisconcerted
Zhengzhangŋoɡ
hŋoɡ

說文解字

頭頊頊謹皃。从頁玉聲。

Sources

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

顼 xū, xù grieved Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode