托庇 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tuōbì

seek protection

tuō to hold up, support

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

乇 Sound component

tuō, zhé to depend on

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	l̥ʰaːɡ

Sources

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

bì, pí, pǐ cover

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 比 represents the sound.

Components

广 Meaning component

guǎng roof

比 Sound component

bǐ to compare

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjij	pij	cover; protect
	pjijH	pij-s	cover; protect
Zhengzhang		pis
Unicode	bì

說文解字

蔭也。从广比聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)