婉妙 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wǎnmiào

melodious

wǎn amiable

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 宛 represents the sound.

Components

女 Meaning component

nǚ, nü woman

宛 Sound component

wǎn, yuān, yǔn winding

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ʔjwonX	[ʔ]o[n]ʔ	beautiful
Zhengzhang		qonʔ
Unicode	qiuæ̌n

說文解字

順也。从女宛聲。《春秋傳》曰：“太子痤婉。”

Sources

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

miào mysterious

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 少 represents the sound.

Components

女 Meaning component

nǚ, nü woman

少 Sound component

shǎo, shao, shào few

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjiewH	[m]ew(ʔ)-s	marvelous

Sources

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