乌什县 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wū crow Simplified

Simplified form of 烏. Pictograph of a crow. Similar to 鳥.

Component uses

Sound (0 of 4 verified)

呜坞钨邬

Sources

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

shén, shen what

Original meaning: file of ten soldiers

The character is based on the original meaning "file of ten soldiers". The modern meaning "what" is a phonetic loan.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

十 Meaning component

shí ten

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzyip	t.[g]əp	troop of ten men

說文解字

《說文》：“什，相什保也。从人、十。”

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)

xiàn county Simplified

Original meaning: suspend, hang

Simplified form of 縣. Pictograph of a severed head (首) hanging on a rope (系) from a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "hang" or "suspend". The current meaning is a phonetic loan. The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification.

Components

首 Iconic component

shǒu head

Depicts a severed head.

Change in form

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

木 Iconic component

mù tree

Change in form

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

系 Deleted component

xì, xi, jì system

Depicts a rope. The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification.

Component uses

Sound (1)

悬

Iconic (1)

悬

Sources

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

wū crow Traditional

Pictograph of a crow. Similar to 鳥.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 4 verified)

摀鎢塢嗚

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'u	[ʔ]ˤa	oh!
	'u	qˤa	crow, raven; black
	'u	ʔˤa	烏桓, 烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)

說文解字

《說文》：“烏，孝鳥也。象形。孔子曰：‘烏，呼也。’取其助气，故以為烏呼。，古文烏，象形。於，象古文烏省。”

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)

xiàn county Traditional

Original meaning: suspend, hang

Pictograph of a severed head (首) hanging on a rope (系) from a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "hang" or "suspend", now written as 懸. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.