审题 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

shěn examine Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 申 represents the sound. Simplified form of 審.

Components

宀 Meaning component

mián roof

申 Sound component

shēn to extend

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

婶渖

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Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

tí topic Simplified

Original meaning: forehead

Simplified form of 題. Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "forehead". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

页 Meaning component

yè page

Depicts a head.

是 Sound component

shì, shi is

Change in sound

题 and 是 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

shěn examine Traditional

Origin unclear.

Components

宀 Meaning component

mián roof

釆 Meaning component

biàn, biǎn distinguish

口 Meaning component

kǒu, kou mouth

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

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

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Sound (0 of 2 verified)

瀋嬸

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syimX	s.tʰ[ə]mʔ	examine, discriminate

說文解字

《說文》：“宷，悉也，知宷諦也。从宀，从釆。審，篆文宷从番。”

Sources

Character origin: 李学勤《字源》p.68
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

tí topic Traditional

Original meaning: forehead

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "forehead". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

頁 Meaning component

yè (head), page

Depicts a head.

是 Sound component

shì, shi is

Change in sound

題 and 是 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
題 deː
是 *[d]eʔ

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		deː
		deːs
Unicode	dhei

說文解字

《說文》：“題，頟也。从頁，是聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

审 shěn examine Simplified

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Sound (0 of 2 verified)

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题 tí topic Simplified

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審 shěn examine Traditional

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Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

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說文解字

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題 tí topic Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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shěn examine Simplified

tí topic Simplified

shěn examine Traditional

tí topic Traditional