拉磨 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

lāmò

drudgery

lā, la pull

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

立 Sound component

lì stand

Change in sound

拉 and 立 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
拉 lop
立 lip

Character Evolution

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啦

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lop	[r]ˤəp	break

說文解字

《說文》：“拉，摧也。从手，立聲。”

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)

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

拉 lā, la pull

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

磨 mó, mo, mò grind

Components

Character Evolution

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Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

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lā, la pull

mó, mo, mò grind