帷幔 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wéimàn

curtain

wéi tent

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

Components

巾 Meaning component

jīn cloth

隹 Sound component

zhuī, cuī, wéi bird

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 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

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hwij	ɢʷrij	curtain
Zhengzhang		ɢʷril
Unicode	hyui

說文解字

在㫄曰帷。从巾隹聲。

Sources

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

màn curtain

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

Components

巾 Meaning component

jīn cloth

曼 Sound component

màn long

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	manH	mˤa[n]-s	curtain, tent
Zhengzhang		moːns
Unicode	mɑ̀n

說文解字

幕也。从巾曼聲。

Sources

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