护短 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

hù protect Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 户 represents the sound. Simplified form of 護.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

户 Sound component

hù, hu door

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

duǎn short

Phonosemantic compound. 矢 represents the meaning and 豆 represents the sound.

Components

矢 Meaning component

shǐ arrow

豆 Sound component

dòu bean

Change in sound

短 and 豆 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
短 *tˤorʔ
豆 *[N.t]ˤo-s

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	twanX	tˤorʔ	short

說文解字

《說文》：“短，有所長短，以矢為正。从矢，豆聲。”

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)

hù protect Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 蒦 represents the sound.

Components

言 Meaning component

yán speech

蒦 Sound component

huò, wò catch, get

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	huH	[ɢ]ʷˤak-s	protect

說文解字

《說文》：“護，救視也。从言，蒦聲。”

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)

护 hù protect Simplified

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短 duǎn short

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護 hù protect Traditional

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Character Evolution

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hù protect Simplified

duǎn short

hù protect Traditional