帽檐 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

màoyán

brim

mào hat

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

Components

巾 Meaning component

jīn cloth

冒 Sound Meaning component

mào risk

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mawH	mˤuk-s	hat

Sources

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

yán eaves of house

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 詹 represents the sound. Simplified form of 簷.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

詹 Sound component

zhān, dàn talk too much

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yem	Cə.[ɢ]am	eaves
	yem	[ɢ][a]m	temple gate
Zhengzhang		lam
Unicode	iɛm

說文解字

㮰也。从木詹聲。

Sources

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