布施 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

bùshī

almsgiving

bù cotton cloth

Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 父 represents the sound.

Components

父 Sound component

fù father

Change in form

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

巾 Meaning component

jīn cloth

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

怖钸鈽佈

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	puH	pˤa-s	cloth
	puH	pˤa-s	cloth

說文解字

《說文》：“布，枲織也。从巾，父聲。”

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)

shī grant, bestow

Phonosemantic compound. 㫃 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound.

Components

㫃 Meaning component

yǎn flags flying

也 Sound component

yě also

Change in sound

施 and 也 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
施 *l̥aj
也 *lAjʔ

Character Evolution

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

暆

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sye	l̥aj	give, bestow

說文解字

《說文》：“施，旗皃。从，也聲。亝欒施字子旗，知施者旗也。”

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)

布 bù cotton cloth

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

施 shī grant, bestow

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

bù cotton cloth

shī grant, bestow