打雪仗 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

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)

xuě snow

Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 彗 represents the sound.

Components

雨 Meaning component

yǔ rain

彗 Sound Remnant component

huì, suì broom

Change in sound

雪 and 彗 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
雪 sjwet
彗 zjwejH

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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鳕鱈

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sjwet	[s]ot	snow

說文解字

《說文》：“，凝雨說物者。”

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)

zhàng weaponry, war

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 丈 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

丈 Sound component

zhàng unit of length ~ 3 meters

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		daŋʔ
		daŋs
Unicode	djhiɑ̀ng
	djhiɑ̌ng

Sources

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

打 dǎ, da strike

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說文解字

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雪 xuě snow

Components

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

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仗 zhàng weaponry, war

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dǎ, da strike

xuě snow

zhàng weaponry, war