break or smash into pieces

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsliːl

Sources

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

break or smash into pieces Simplified

Components

Sound component
even
Meaning component
jiǔ chives

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode