委屈 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wěiqu HSK7

feel wronged

wěi bent, winding

Depicts grain (禾) in a bent shape (𠃊).

Components

禾 Iconic component

hé grain stalk

𠃊 Iconic component

yǐn hidden area

Used here to depict a bent shape. Modern form looks like 女.

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 8 verified)

魏矮萎倭诿痿逶諉

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'jwe	q(r)oj	委蛇 compliant, complaisant
	'jweX	q(r)ojʔ	entrust to
	'jweX	q(r)ojʔ	collect; store
	'jweX	q(r)orʔ	bend; hang down

說文解字

《說文》：“委，委隨也。从女，从禾。”

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)

qū, qu bend

Phonosemantic compound. 尾 represents the meaning and 出 represents the sound.

Components

尾 Meaning Remnant component

wěi tail

出 Sound component

chū go out

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

掘窟崛倔堀

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

倔

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khjut	Nə-[kʰ]ut	bent
	khjut	[kʰ]ut	bend, subdue

說文解字

《說文》：“屈，無尾也。从尾，出聲。”

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)

委 wěi bent, winding

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (1 of 8 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

屈 qū, qu bend

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

wěi bent, winding

qū, qu bend