博格达峰 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

bó plentiful, gamble

Original meaning: fight

Phonosemantic compound. 盾 represents the meaning and 尃 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "fight", which later shifted to "win", "plentiful", and "gamble".

Components

盾 Meaning component

dùn shield

Depicts a shield. Modern form looks like 十.

Change in meaning

盾 hints at the original meaning of 博, "fight", which is no longer the most common meaning of 博 in modern Mandarin.

Change in form

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

尃 Sound component

fū, bù, fǔ state, announce

Change in sound

博 and 尃 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
博 *pˤak
尃 pʰa

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pak	pˤak	broad

說文解字

《說文》：“博，大，通也。从十，从尃。尃，布也。”

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)

gé, ge pattern, frame

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

各 Sound component

gè each

Character Evolution

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Baxter-Sagart	kaek	kˤrak	go to

說文解字

《說文》：“格，木長皃。从木，各聲。”

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)

dá arrive at Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 大 represents the sound. Simplified form of 達.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

大 Sound component

dà, dài big

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Sound (0 of 6 verified)

哒鞑挞闼跶垯

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	tʰeːds

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica

fēng peak

Components

山 Meaning component

shān mountain

mountain

夆 Sound component

féng, páng resist

Character Evolution

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		pʰoŋ
Unicode	piong

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica

dá arrive at Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 羍 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

羍 Sound component

dá little lamb

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Sound (0 of 4 verified)

噠韃躂撻

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dat	[l]ˤat	arrive at

說文解字

行不相遇也。从辵羍聲。《詩》曰：“挑兮達兮。”

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)

博 bó plentiful, gamble

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格 gé, ge pattern, frame

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达 dá arrive at Simplified

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Sound (0 of 6 verified)

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峰 fēng peak

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達 dá arrive at Traditional

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Sound (0 of 4 verified)

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bó plentiful, gamble

gé, ge pattern, frame

dá arrive at Simplified

fēng peak

dá arrive at Traditional