性别歧视 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xìng, xing nature

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound.

Components

忄 Meaning component

xin, xīn heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

生 Sound component

shēng, sheng life

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sjengH	seŋ-s	nature

說文解字

《說文》：“性，人之陽气性善者也。从心，生聲。”

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)

bié, biè separate Simplified

Simplified form of 別. Depicts a knife (刂) cutting meat off of a bone (另).

Components

另 Iconic component

lìng (bones), another

Depicts a bone.

刂 Iconic component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

捌

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

捌

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	pred
	bred

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

qí fork of road

Phonosemantic compound. 止 represents the meaning and 支 represents the sound.

Components

止 Meaning component

zhǐ (foot), stop

支 Sound component

zhī support, hold up

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjie	N-ke (dialect: no palatalization)	forked (road)
Zhengzhang		ɡe
Unicode	ghiɛ

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang

shì, shi look at Simplified

Simplified form of 視. Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 礻 represents the sound.

Components

见 Meaning component

jiàn, xiàn, jian see

礻 Sound component

shì show

礻 is a component form of 示.

Sources

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

bié, biè separate Traditional

Depicts a knife (刂) cutting meat off of a bone （冎）.

Components

冎 Iconic component

guǎ bone

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 冎 than it was in ancient scripts.

刂 Iconic component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bjet	N-pret	be separated (intr.)
	pjet	pret	separate (tr.)

說文解字

《說文》：“，分解也。从冎，从刀。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.336
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

shì, shi look at Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 礻 represents the sound.

Components

見 Meaning component

jiàn, xiàn, jian see

礻 Sound component

shì show

礻 is a component form of 示.

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzyijX	gijʔ	look, see
	dzyijH	gijʔ-s	look, see

說文解字

《說文》：“視，瞻也。从見、示。，古文視；眡，亦古文視。”

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)

性 xìng, xing nature

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說文解字

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别 bié, biè separate Simplified

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

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歧 qí fork of road

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视 shì, shi look at Simplified

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別 bié, biè separate Traditional

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視 shì, shi look at Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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xìng, xing nature

bié, biè separate Simplified

qí fork of road

shì, shi look at Simplified

bié, biè separate Traditional

shì, shi look at Traditional