兼蓄 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jiānxù

contain

jiān double

Depicts a hand (又) holding two stalks of grain (禾).

Components

禾 Iconic component

hé grain stalk

Change in form

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

禾 Iconic component

hé grain stalk

Change in form

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

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

Depicts a hand.

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

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

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (6 of 13 verified)

廉嫌歉赚谦慊缣鹣蒹搛賺謙鶼

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

搛

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kem	[k]ˤem	combine; at the same time

說文解字

《說文》：“兼，并也。从又持秝。兼，持二禾。秉，持一禾。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫裘錫圭 "Chinese Writing" p.188
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

xù store

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

plant

畜 Sound component

chù, xù livestock

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	trhjuwk	qʰ<r>uk	store (v.)
	xjuwk	qʰuk	collect; store (n.)
Zhengzhang		l̥ʰuɡ
		hluɡ
Unicode	xiuk

說文解字

積也。从艸畜聲。

Sources

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

兼 jiān double

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (6 of 13 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

蓄 xù store

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

jiān double

xù store