停课 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tíngkè

suspend classes

tíng stop

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

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

亭 Sound component

tíng pavilion

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	deng	Cə.[d]ˤeŋ (~ *C.[d]ˤeŋ)	to stop

說文解字

《說文新附》：“停，止也。从人，亭聲。”

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)

kè lesson Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 果 represents the sound. Simplified form of 課.

Components

讠 Meaning component

yán speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

果 Sound component

guǒ fruit

Change in sound

课 and 果 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Sources

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

kè lesson Traditional

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

Components

言 Meaning component

yán speech

果 Sound component

guǒ fruit

Change in sound

課 and 果 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
課 kʰloːl
果 *[k]ˤo[r]ʔ

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	kʰloːl
	kʰloːls

說文解字

《說文》：“課，試也。从言，果聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

停 tíng stop

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

课 kè lesson Simplified

Components

Sources

課 kè lesson Traditional

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

tíng stop

kè lesson Simplified

kè lesson Traditional