zōuZōu

mounted escort

Components

Meaning component
horse

horse

Sound component
mow, cut grass

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzrjuwHm-[ts]ˤro(k)-sto run
tsrjuw[ts]ˤrogroom
Zhengzhangʔsru
Unicodejriou

說文解字

廏御也。从馬芻聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

zōu, zhū, zhòu mounted escort Simplified

Components

Meaning component
horse

horse

Sound component
chú, zōu mow, cut grass

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode