共犯 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

gòngfàn

accomplice

gòng together with

Pictograph of two hands holding up a vessel.

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a vessel being held up.

廾 Iconic component

gǒng two hands

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjowngH	N-k(r)oŋʔ-s	together, all

說文解字

《說文》：“共，同也。从廿、廾。，古文共。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫裘錫圭 "Chinese Writing" p.189
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

fàn commit crime

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 𢎘 represents the sound.

Components

犭 Meaning component

quǎn dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

𢎘 Sound component

hàn flower bud

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		bomʔ
Unicode	bhiæ̌m

說文解字

《說文》：“犯，侵也。从犬，巳聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 教育部異體字字典
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

共 gòng together with

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Sound (4 of 15 verified)

Iconic (1)

Meaning (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

犯 fàn commit crime

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gòng together with

fàn commit crime