健硕
jiàn​shuò

well-built

健 jiàn healthy

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

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

建
建 Sound component
jiàn build

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangɡans
Unicodeghiæ̀n

說文解字

伉也。从人建聲。

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)

硕 shuò great Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the sound and 页 represents the meaning. Simplified form of 碩.

Components

石
石 Sound component
shí stone
Change in sound
页
页 Meaning component
yè page

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

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

碩 great Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the sound and 頁 represents the meaning.

Components

石
石 Sound component
shí stone
Change in sound
頁
頁 Meaning component
yè (head), page

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzyek[d]Ak great, stately

說文解字

《說文》：“碩，頭大也。从頁，石聲。”

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)