假名 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jiǎmíng

pseudonym

jiǎ, jià falsehood

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

叚 Sound Meaning component

jiǎ, xiá false

叚 also serves as a meaning component.

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

▼ More ▲ Less

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kaeX	Cə.kˤraʔ	borrow; false
	kaeX	kˤraʔ	great

說文解字

《說文》：“假，非真也。从人，叚聲。一曰至也。《虞書》曰：‘假于上下。’”

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)

míng name

Depicts a mouth (口) saying their own name at night (夕) when it is too dark for others to see them.

Components

夕 Iconic component

xī evening

Depicts the moon.

口 Iconic component

kǒu, kou mouth

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Regular Modern

▼ More ▲ Less

Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

铭茗酩眳銘

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

铭銘

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjieng	C.meŋ	name

說文解字

《說文》：“名，自命也。从口，从夕。夕者，冥也。冥不相見，故以口自名。”

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)

假 jiǎ, jià falsehood

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

名 míng name

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

jiǎ, jià falsehood

míng name