Depicts a mouth (口) in a closed space (宀) making an echo sound. Based on the original meaning "echo; sound", now written as 響. The meaning later shifted to "direction" and "toward".
Components
Character Evolution
Component uses
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | xjangH | n̥aŋ-s | window facing North; turn towards |
說文解字
《說文》：“向，北出牖也。从宀，从口。”
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)
曏 Traditional
Variant of 向.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | syangX | n̥aŋʔ | a short time |
| syangH | n̥aŋ-s | a short time | |
| xjangX | n̥aŋʔ (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-) | a short time | |
| xjangH | n̥aŋʔ-s (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-) | a short time |
說文解字
《說文》：“曏，不久前。从日，鄉聲。”
Sources
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
Traditional
Components
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | xjangH | qʰaŋ-s | to face, approach |
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart