撞衫 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zhuàngshān

outfit clash

zhuàng knock against

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

童 Sound component

tóng child

Change in sound

撞 and 童 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
撞 draewng
童 duwng

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	draewng	[N-t]ˤ<r>oŋ	strike
	draewngH	N-tˤ<r>oŋ-s	strike

說文解字

《說文》：“撞，卂擣也。从手，童聲。”

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)

shān shirt

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 彡 represents the sound.

Components

衤 Meaning component

yī clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

彡 Sound component

shān, xiǎn hair

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		sroːm
Unicode	shram

說文解字

《說文新附》：“衫，衣也。从衣，彡聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

撞 zhuàng knock against

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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衫 shān shirt

Components

Character Evolution

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zhuàng knock against

shān shirt