吸吮 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xīshǔn

suck in

xī inhale

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

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

及 Sound component

jí extend

Character Evolution

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	xip	qʰ(r)əp	inhale

說文解字

《說文》：“吸，內息也。从口，及聲。”

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)

shǔn suck with mouth

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

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

允 Sound component

yǔn allow, permit

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		zlonʔ
		ɦljunʔ
Unicode	jhuǐn

說文解字

欶也。从口允聲。

Sources

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