fame

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
yǔ, yù together with

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyom-q(r)apraise (v.)
yoH[ɢ](r)a-sjoy
yoHm-q(r)a-spraise, renown
Zhengzhangla
las
Unicode

說文解字

(纤)也。从言與聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

fame Simplified

Word of one's success 

Components

Meaning component
xìng, xīng rise, flourish
Meaning component
yán speech

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode