吊点滴 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

diàodiǎndī

IV drip

diào to hang

Original meaning: silk streamers used for arrows

Variant of 弔. Depicts a person carrying silk streamers used for wrapping around arrows with. Based on the original meaning "silk streamers used for arrows", now written as 繳. The meaning later shifted to "to hang" and "to hang a person".

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts silk streamers used for wrapping around arrows with.

人 Iconic component

rén, ren person

Change in form

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

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

铞屌

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

屌

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tewH	tˤ[e]wk-s	grieved; condole
Zhengzhang		tiːwɢs

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.639-640黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.838-839漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang

diǎn dot Simplified

Simplified form of 點. Phonosemantic compound. 黑 represents the meaning and 占 represents the sound.

Components

占 Sound component

zhàn divine

Change in sound

点 and 占 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
点 *tˤemʔ
占 *tem

灬 Meaning Simplified component

biāo, huǒ fire

Simplified from the 黑 (black) component in the traditional character 點.

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

dī drip

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

water

啇 Sound component

dì, shì, zhāi stalk, stem, root

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		teːɡ
Unicode	dek

說文解字

《說文》：“滴，水注也。从水，啻聲。”

Sources

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

diǎn dot Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 黑 represents the meaning and 占 represents the sound.

Components

黑 Meaning component

hēi black

占 Sound component

zhàn divine

Change in sound

點 and 占 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
點 *tˤemʔ
占 *tem

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

▼ More ▲ Less

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	temX	tˤemʔ	black spot

說文解字

《說文》：“點，小黑也。从黑，占聲。”

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)

吊 diào to hang

Components

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

点 diǎn dot Simplified

Components

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

滴 dī drip

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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點 diǎn dot Traditional

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

diào to hang

diǎn dot Simplified

dī drip

diǎn dot Traditional