彩扩 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

cǎikuò

color processing

cǎi, cai hue, color

Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 采 represents the sound.

Components

采 Sound component

cǎi gather, pick

彡 Meaning component

shān, xiǎn hair

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tshojX	s.r̥ˤəʔ	colorful

說文解字

《說文新附》：“彩，文章也。从彡，采聲。”

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)

kuò expand, enlarge Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 广 represents the sound. Simplified form of 擴.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

广 Sound Meaning component

guǎng roof

Change in sound

扩 and 广 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
扩 *kʷʰˤak
广 *kʷˤaŋʔ

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

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

kuò expand, enlarge Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 廣 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

廣 Sound Meaning component

guǎng wide

Change in sound

擴 and 廣 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
擴 *kʷʰˤak
廣 *kʷˤaŋʔ

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khwak	kʷʰˤak	widen

Sources

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

彩 cǎi, cai hue, color

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

扩 kuò expand, enlarge Simplified

Components

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

擴 kuò expand, enlarge Traditional

Components

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

cǎi, cai hue, color

kuò expand, enlarge Simplified

kuò expand, enlarge Traditional