huàn​jué​jì

hallucinogen

huàn illusion

An inversion of , "to give"

Components

Meaning component
yāo tiny

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡʷreːns

說文解字

《說文》:“幻,相詐惑也。从反予。《周書》曰:‘無或譸張為幻。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

jué, jiào feel, think Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and a remnant of represents the sound. Simplified from .

Components

Meaning component
jiàn, xiàn, jian see
SoundRemnant component
xué learning

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Sources

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

medicinal preparation Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
dāo knife

is a component form of .

Sound component
even

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

jué, jiào feel, think Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and a remnant of represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
jiàn, xiàn, jian see
𦥯
𦥯 Sound component
xué to learn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkaewHkˤruk-s awaken
kaewkkˤruk be aware

說文解字

《說文》:“覺,寤也。从見,學省聲。一曰發也。”

Sources

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

medicinal preparation Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
dāo knife

is a component form of .

Sound component
even, uniform

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzliːls
ʔslel

說文解字

齊也。从刀从齊,齊亦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica