刮刮叫

刮 guā to scrape, shave

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

Components

𠯑
𠯑 Sound component
guā block the mouth
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𠯑 than it was in ancient scripts.
刂
刂 Meaning component
dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwaet[kʷˤ]r[a]t scrape (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“刮，掊把也。从刀，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)

叫 jiào cry

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 丩 represents the sound.

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
丩
丩 Sound component
jiū join

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkewHkˤewk-s shout

說文解字

《說文》：“叫，嘑也。从口，丩聲。”

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)