拨出 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

bō move Simplified

To dispatch 发 goods by hand 扌

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

发 Meaning component

fā, fa, fà issue

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

chū go out

Pictograph of a foot (止) exiting a cave (凵).

Components

止 Iconic component

zhǐ (foot), stop

Depicts a foot.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 止 than it was in ancient scripts.

凵 Iconic component

qiǎn, kǎn enclosure

Depicts a cave.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

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

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Component uses

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyhwit	t-kʰut	go or come out
	tsyhwijH	t-kʰut-s	bring or take out

說文解字

《說文》：“出，進也。象艸木益滋上出達也。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.501-502
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

bō move Traditional

To dispatch 發 goods by hand 扌

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

發 Meaning component

fā, fa, fà send out

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pat	pˤat	spread out
Zhengzhang		paːd
Unicode	bɑt

說文解字

治也。从手發聲。

Sources

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

拨 bō move Simplified

Components

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出 chū go out

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Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (2 of 9 verified)

Meaning (2 of 4 verified)

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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撥 bō move Traditional

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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bō move Simplified

chū go out

bō move Traditional