孕酮 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yùntóng

progesterone

yùn be pregnant

Pictograph of a pregnant woman (身) with a child (子) inside of her body.

身 Iconic component

shēn body

Depicts a woman with her uterus emphasized. Modern form looks like unrelated 乃.

Change in form

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

子 Iconic component

zi, zǐ child

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yingH	l[i]ŋ-s	pregnant

《說文》：“孕，褢子也。从子，从几。”

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 同 represents the sound.

酉 Meaning component

yǒu wine

同 Sound component

tóng, tong, tòng together

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	doːŋ
	doːŋʔ