健脾 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jiànpí

strengthen spleen

jiàn healthy

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 建 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

建 Sound component

jiàn build

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		ɡans
Unicode	ghiæ̀n

說文解字

伉也。从人建聲。

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

pí spleen

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 卑 represents the sound.

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

卑 Sound component

bēi humble, inferior

Change in sound

脾 and 卑 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
脾 bjie
卑 pjie

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bjie	m-[p]e	spleen

說文解字

《說文》：“脾，土藏也。从肉，卑聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

健 jiàn healthy

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

脾 pí spleen

Components

Character Evolution

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說文解字

Sources

jiàn healthy

pí spleen