lüè​duó HSK7

plunder

lüè rob

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

is a component form of .

Sound component
jīng capital city

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangɡ·raŋs
ɡ·raɡ
Unicodeliɑk

說文解字

奪取也。从手京聲。本音亮。《唐韻》或作擽。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

duó take by force Simplified

Simplified form of . Depicts a hand () snatching a bird (). The top component was originally (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either or .

Components

Sound component
dà, dài big
Deleted component
zhuī, cuī, wéi bird
Iconic component
cùn, cun (hand), inch

Sources

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

duó take by force Traditional

Depicts a hand () snatching a bird (). The top component was originally (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either or .

Components

Sound component
dà, dài big
Iconic component
zhuī, cuī, wéi bird
Iconic component
cùn, cun (hand), inch

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdwatCə.lˤot seize

說文解字

《說文》:“,手持隹失之也。从又,从。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica