雩

yú

yú to offer a sacrifice for rain

To sacrifice 亏 for rain 雨; 雨 also provides the pronunciation

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional Modern

Simplified Modern

Composed characters:

Component: 亏

Component: 雨

亏雨