刚果河
Gāng​guǒ Hé

Congo River

刚 gāng hard Simplified

Simplified form of 剛. Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 岡 represents the sound.

Components

冈
冈 Sound component
gāng ridge or crest of hill
刂
刂 Meaning component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

果 guǒ fruit

Pictograph of fruit growing on a tree.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts fruit. Unrelated to the visually similar character 田 (field).

木
木 Iconic component
mù tree

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (6 of 16 verified)

课棵裸裹踝猓窠夥髁稞倮锞蜾課骒菓

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

颗稞顆菓

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwaX[k]ˤo[r]ʔ fruit; result

說文解字

《說文》：“果，木實也。象果形在木之上。”

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)

河 hé river

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 可 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

可
可 Sound component
kě able to

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

菏

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

菏

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartha[C.g]ˤaj river

說文解字

《說文》：“河，水。出焞煌塞外昆侖山，發原注海。从水，可聲。”

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)

剛 gāng hard Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 岡 represents the sound.

Components

岡
岡 Sound component
gāng ridge or crest of hill
刂
刂 Meaning component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkangkˤaŋ strong; hard

說文解字

《說文》：“剛，彊，斷也。从刀，岡聲。”

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)