提要 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tíyào

summary

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)

yào, yāo want

Original meaning: waist

Pictograph of two hands grabbing a woman's (女) waist. The current meaning "want" is a phonetic loan. The original meaning "waist" is now written as 腰.

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts two hands grabbing a waist.

Change in meaning

◎ hints at the original meaning of 要, "waist", which is no longer the most common meaning of 要 in modern Mandarin.

女 Iconic component

nǚ, nü woman

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Component uses

Sound (2 of 3 verified)

票腰崾

Remnant (1)

票

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'jiewH	[q]ew(k)-s	important

說文解字

《說文》：“要，身中也，象人要自之形。从，交省聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.183
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

提 tí hold in hand

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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要 yào, yāo want

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (2 of 3 verified)

Remnant (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

tí hold in hand

yào, yāo want