哀毁骨立 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

āihuǐgǔlì

emaciated from grief

āi sad; pity

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

Components

衣 Sound component

yī clothes

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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

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

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'oj	ʔˤəj	to pity; sad

說文解字

《說文》：“哀，閔也。从口，衣聲。”

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)

huǐ destroy Simplified

Simplified form of 毀. Phonosemantic compound. 毇 represents the sound and 土 represents the meaning.

Components

毇 Sound Remnant component

huǐ to pound rice

工 Simplified component

gōng work

Variant of the 土 component in the traditional character 毀.

Component uses

Sound (1)

Meaning (1)

Sources

Character origin: 李学勤《字源》p.1191-1192
Readings & variants: Unicode

gǔ, gú bone

Pictograph of a bone (冎) with a muscle (肉) attached to it.

Components

冎 Sound Iconic component

guǎ bone

肉 Iconic component

ròu meat

Deceptively similar but unrelated to 月.

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

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

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Meaning (4 of 21 verified)

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Sound (1 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kwot	kˤut	bone

說文解字

《說文》：“骨，肉之覈也。从冎，有肉。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.336
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

lì stand

Pictograph of a person standing on the ground.

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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

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

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

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

Seal form — Seal Qin 221-206 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (4 of 11 verified)

位拉粒泣垃笠飒翊昱砬颯

Meaning (2 of 7 verified)

站端竭靖竣砬竘

Iconic (3)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lip	k.rəp	stand (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“立，住也。从大，立一之上。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.782-783
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

huǐ destroy Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 毇 represents the sound and 土 represents the meaning.

Components

毇 Sound Remnant component

huǐ to pound rice

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

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 Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (1)

Meaning (1)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xjweX	[m̥](r)ajʔ	demolish

說文解字

《說文》：“毀，缺也。从土，毇省聲。，古文毀从壬。”

Sources

Character origin: 李学勤《字源》p.1191-1192
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)