提掖 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tíyè

support

tí hold in hand

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

是 Sound component

shì, shi is

Change in sound

提 and 是 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
提 *[d]ˤe
是 *[d]eʔ

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dej	[d]ˤe	lift, grasp

說文解字

《說文》：“提，挈也。从手，是聲。”

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)

yē, yè support with the arms

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

夜 Sound component

yè night

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yek	[ɢ](r)Ak	armpit
Zhengzhang		laːɡ
Unicode	iɛk

說文解字

以手持人臂投地也。从手夜聲。一曰臂下也。

Sources

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

提 tí hold in hand

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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掖 yē, yè support with the arms

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

tí hold in hand

yē, yè support with the arms