Original meaning: straighten
Depicts rope wrapped around two pieces of wood to keep them straight. Based on the original meaning "straighten". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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Character Evolution
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Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | pjut | p[u]t | (negation) |
| pjut | put | gust of wind | |
| pjut | put | writing brush (pron. in Yān 燕, ap. Shuōwén, E. Hàn) |
說文解字
《說文》：“弗，撟也。从丿，从，从韋省。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.856-857李学勤《字源》p.1104
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
Simplified
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- Wiktionary
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Simplified
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| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ʔsɯ |
| zɯ |
說文解字
《說文》：“玆，黑也。从二玄。”
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- Zhengzhang Shangfang
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- Academia Sinica
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Traditional
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| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | lan | k.rˤan | orchid |
說文解字
《說文》：“蘭，香艸也。从艸，闌聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
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- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
Traditional
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Character Evolution
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| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | |
|---|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ʔsɯ | |
| zɯ | ||
| Unicode | tziə | |
| dzhiə |
說文解字
《說文》：“茲，艸木多益。从艸，茲省聲。”
Sources
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- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)