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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as .

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

is a component form of .

Sound component
sǒu, sōu, xiāo old man

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsrjuwsru search

說文解字

《說文》:“,眾意也。一曰求也。从手,叜聲。”

Sources

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

kuò include, enclose

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 𠯑 represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

is a component form of .

𠯑
𠯑 Sound component
guā block the mouth

Modern form looks like .

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

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːd

說文解字

《說文》:“,絜也。从手,聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica