奢盼 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

shēpàn

expect unrealistically

shē extravagant

Phonosemantic compound. 大 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components

大 Meaning component

dà, dài big

者 Sound component

zhě one who...

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

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

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syæ	s.tʰA	extravagant
Zhengzhang		hljaː
Unicode	shia

說文解字

張也。从大者聲。凡奢之屬皆从奢。

Sources

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

pàn look, gaze

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 分 represents the sound.

Components

目 Meaning component

mù eye

分 Sound component

fēn, fèn, fen divide

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		pʰrɯːns
Unicode	pɛ̀n

說文解字

《說文》：“盼，《詩》曰：‘美目盼兮。’从目，分聲。”

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)