吟哦 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yín'é

chant

yín sing

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

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

今 Sound component

jīn now

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ngim	m-qʰ(r)[ə]m	chant, intone
Zhengzhang		ŋɡrɯm
		ŋɡrɯms
Unicode	ngyim

說文解字

呻也。从口今聲。

Sources

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

ó, ò, é oh? really? is that so?

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

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

我 Sound component

wǒ I; me

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		ŋaːl
Unicode	ngɑ

說文解字

《說文新附》：“哦，吟也。从口，我聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)