撤掉 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

chèdiào

dismiss

chè omit, remove

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

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

chè, wén remove, take away

Change in form

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

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	drjet	m-tʰret	remove, take away
	trhjet	tʰret	remove, take away

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

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

卓 Sound component

zhuó, zhuō profound

Change in sound

掉 and 卓 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
掉 dhèu
卓 traewk

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《說文》：“掉，搖也。从手，卓聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘尾大不掉。’”