pī​mú

mold

dam

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
great

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpʰɯː

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

mó, mú model

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
tree
Sound component
mò, mo do not

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartmumˤa model

說文解字

《說文》:“模,法也。从木,莫聲。讀若嫫母之嫫。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica