哮喘 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xiàochuǎn

asthma

xiāo cough

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

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

孝 Sound component

xiào filial piety

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	qʰruː
	qʰruːs

說文解字

豕驚聲也。从口孝聲。

Sources

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

chuǎn pant

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

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

耑 Sound component

duān, zhuān tip, start, extremity

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyhwenX	[tʰ]orʔ	to pant
Zhengzhang		tʰjonʔ
Unicode	chiuɛ̌n

說文解字

疾息也。从口耑聲。

Sources

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