打磨 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

dǎmó HSK7

polish

dǎ, da strike

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

丁 Sound component

dīng cubes

Change in sound

打 and 丁 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
打 děng
丁 teng

Character Evolution

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咑

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		rteŋʔ
		teːŋʔ
Unicode	děng

說文解字

《說文新附》：“打，擊也。从手，丁聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

mó, mo, mò grind

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 麻 represents the sound.

Components

石 Meaning component

shí stone

麻 Sound component

má, ma hemp

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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蘑耱

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ma	mˤaj	rub, grind
	maH	mˤaj-s	grinding stone
Zhengzhang		maːl
		maːls
Unicode	mɑ

Sources

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

打 dǎ, da strike

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說文解字

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磨 mó, mo, mò grind

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dǎ, da strike

mó, mo, mò grind