宰予 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

Zǎi Yú

Zai Yu

zǎi to slaughter

A barracks 宀 where slaves 辛 live

Components

宀 Meaning component

mián roof

辛 Meaning component

xīn laborious

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

滓

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsojX	[ts]ˤəʔ	steward; minister
Zhengzhang		ʔsɯːʔ
Unicode	tzə̌i
	tzə̌i

說文解字

辠人在屋下執事者。从宀从辛。辛，辠也。

Sources

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

yǔ give

Embellishment of the phonetically similar character 呂.

Components

呂 Sound component

pitchpipe

Change in sound

予 and 呂 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
予 *laʔ
呂 *[r]aʔ

Change in form

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

亅 Distinguishing component

jué hook

Character Evolution

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Sound (6 of 10 verified)

预序野舒豫纾杼預妤紓

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

抒纾紓

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yo	laʔ	I, we
	yoX	laʔ	give; together with

說文解字

《說文》：“予，推予也。象相予之形。”

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)

宰 zǎi to slaughter

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

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Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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予 yǔ give

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (6 of 10 verified)

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

zǎi to slaughter

yǔ give