仡佬族 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

gē, yì, wù strong

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ngjɨt	[ŋ]ət	great, powerful
Zhengzhang		ŋɯd
		hŋɯd

說文解字

勇壯也。从人气聲。《周書》曰：“㐹㐹勇夫。”

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

lǎo, liáo (Cant.) man

An old 老 person 亻; 老 also provides the pronunciation

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

老 Sound Meaning component

lǎo old

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

zú clan, tribe, race

Depicts a flag (㫃) representing a clan and an arrow (矢) representing their military power.

Components

㫃 Iconic component

yǎn flags flying

矢 Iconic component

shǐ arrow

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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簇镞蔟

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzuwk	[dz]ˤok	clan

說文解字

《說文》：“族，矢鋒也，束之族族也。从，从矢。”

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)

仡 gē, yì, wù strong

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佬 lǎo, liáo (Cant.) man

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族 zú clan, tribe, race

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gē, yì, wù strong

lǎo, liáo (Cant.) man

zú clan, tribe, race