zéi
thief
Original meaning:
to destroy
Phonosemantic compound. 戈 represents the meaning and 则 represents the sound. Simplified form of 賊.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernSources
