掘出 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

juéchū

unearth

jué dig

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

屈 Sound component

qū, qu bend

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjut	[ɡ]ut	dig out (earth)
	gjwot	[ɡ]ot	dig out (earth)
Zhengzhang		ɡlod
		ɡlud
Unicode	ghiuæt
	ghiuət

說文解字

搰也。从手屈聲。

Sources

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

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

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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)

掘 jué dig

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

Sources

出 chū go out

Components

Character Evolution

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Sound (2 of 9 verified)

Meaning (2 of 4 verified)

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Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

jué dig

chū go out