不识抬举 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

bù, bu no

Original meaning: sepals

Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The modern meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjuw	pə	not
	pjuw	pə	不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)

說文解字

《說文》：“不，鳥飛上翔不下來也。从一，一猶天也。象形。”

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)

shi, shí recognize Simplified

Simplified from 識. Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 只 represents the sound.

Components

讠 Meaning component

yán speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

只 Sound component

zhǐ, zhī only

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

tái lift

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 台 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

台 Sound component

tái platform

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	l'ɯː

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

jǔ, ju raise Simplified

Simplified form of 舉. Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 與 represents the sound.

Components

手 Meaning component

shǒu, shou hand

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 手 than it was in ancient scripts.

兴 Simplified component

xìng, xīng rise, flourish

Shorthand for the 與 component in the traditional character 舉.

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

榉

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Readings & variants: Unicode

shi, shí recognize Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 戠 represents the sound.

Components

言 Meaning component

yán speech

戠 Sound component

zhī, zhí to gather

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syik	s-tək	know
	tsyiH	tək-s	remember, commemorate

說文解字

《說文》：“識，常也。一曰知也。从言，戠聲。”

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)

jǔ, ju raise Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 與 represents the sound.

Components

手 Meaning component

shǒu, shou hand

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 手 than it was in ancient scripts.

與 Sound component

yǔ, yù together with

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

櫸

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kjoX	C.q(r)aʔ	lift, raise
	kjoX	[k](r)aʔ	all

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica

不 bù, bu no

Character Evolution

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Sound (3 of 5 verified)

Simplified (4)

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

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說文解字

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识 shi, shí recognize Simplified

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抬 tái lift

Components

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举 jǔ, ju raise Simplified

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

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識 shi, shí recognize Traditional

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說文解字

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舉 jǔ, ju raise Traditional

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

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bù, bu no

shi, shí recognize Simplified

tái lift

jǔ, ju raise Simplified

shi, shí recognize Traditional

jǔ, ju raise Traditional