孤寂 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

gūjì

desolate

gū orphan

Phonosemantic compound. 子 represents the meaning and 瓜 represents the sound.

Components

子 Meaning component

zi, zǐ child

瓜 Sound component

guā melon

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 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

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ku	kʷˤa	orphan

說文解字

《說文》：“孤，無父也。从子，瓜聲。”

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)

jì still

Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 叔 represents the sound.

Components

宀 Meaning component

mián roof

叔 Sound component

shū, shu uncle

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzek	s-[d]ˤiwk	quiet
Zhengzhang		zlɯːwɢ
Unicode	dzhek

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang