叽里咕噜

叽 jī, jiào sigh in disapproval Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 几 represents the sound. Simplified form of 嘰.

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
几
几 Sound component
jǐ, jī small table

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里 lǐ, li village

A village (里) is an area of land (土) where people have fields (田). In simplified Chinese 里 is also used to mean "inside", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 裡.

Components

田
田 Meaning component
tián field
土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 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 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 (5 of 17 verified)

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Iconic (0 of 1 verified)

廛

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

㢆

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartliX(mə.)rəʔ li (measure of distance); village

說文解字

《說文》：“里，居也。从田，从土。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.913
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Baxter-Sagart
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Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

咕 gu mumble

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

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
古
古 Sound component
gǔ old

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噜 lū, lǔ verbose Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 鲁 represents the sound. Simplified form of 嚕.

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
鲁
鲁 Sound component
lǔ, lǚ foolish, rude

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嘰 sigh in disapproval Traditional

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

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
幾
幾 Sound component
jǐ how much

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkɯl

說文解字

小食也。从口幾聲。

Sources

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Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
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Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

嚕 verbose Traditional

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

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
魯
魯 Sound component
foolish, rude

Sources

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