紫薇 in English

Character breakdown

• 紫 zǐ purple
• 薇 wēi Osmunda regalis, a species of fern

How it used to be written

紫

• Bronze script 春秋晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 10 forms

薇

• Small seal script
• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).