hóng​rú

erudite scholar

hóng wide

Components

Meaning component
mián roof

building

Sound component
gōng, hóng forearm

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthweang[g]ʷˤ<r>əŋ resounding; great

說文解字

《說文》:“宏,屋深響也,从宀,厷聲。”

Sources

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

Confucian scholar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
rén person

is a component form of .

Sound component
need

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartnyuno侏儒 zhūrú "dwarf", scholar, Confucianism<br><small>(not in original list)</small>
Zhengzhangnjo
Unicodenjio
njio

說文解字

柔也。術士之偁。从人需聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica