丢官
diū​guān

lose office

丢 diū lose, discard Simplified

A horizontal line, depicting an item being discarded, added to the semantically similar character 去 (leave; go).

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts an item being discarded.

去
去 Meaning component
qù go away

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

铥

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫Wiktionary
Readings & variants
Unicode

官 guān official

Depicts an official person (師) working in a governmental institution (宀).

Components

宀
宀 Meaning component
mián roof
師
師 MeaningRemnant component
shī teacher

𠂤 is used here as an abbreviation of 師.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (3 of 9 verified)

管馆棺倌绾涫菅逭館

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwankʷˤa[n] official (n.)

說文解字

《說文》：“官，吏事君也。从宀，从。猶眾也，此與師同意。”

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)

丟 diū lose, discard Traditional

A horizontal line, depicting an item being discarded, added to the semantically similar character 去 (leave; go).

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts an item being discarded.

去
去 Meaning component
qù go away

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫Wiktionary
Readings & variants
Unicode