旁遮普省 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

Pángzhēpǔshěng

Punjab Province

páng side

Phonosemantic component. 凡 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound.

Components

凡 Iconic component

fán all

Depicts a wide, flat object.

Change in form

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

方 Sound Meaning component

fāng, fang square

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Western Zhou 1045-771 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 14 verified)

膀镑榜傍磅谤螃滂耪蒡鳑鰟鎊謗

Meaning (1 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bang	[b]ˤaŋ	side; broad

說文解字

《說文》：“旁，溥也。从二，闕，方聲。，古文；，亦古文；雱，籀文。”

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)

zhē cover, conceal

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 庶 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

庶 Sound component

shù, zhù, zhē numerous

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyae	tA	to cover

說文解字

《說文》：“遮，遏也。从辵，庶聲。”

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)

pǔ universal

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 並 represents the sound.

Components

並 Sound component

side by side

Change in sound

普 and 並 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
普 pʰaːʔ
並 *[b]ˤeŋʔ

日 Meaning component

rì sun

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

谱氆镨譜潽

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	pʰaːʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“暜，日無色也。从日，从竝。”

Sources

Character origin: zdic
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

shěng save

Original meaning: eye disease

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "eye disease", now written as 眚. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

生 Sound component

shēng, sheng life

The original sound component 生 was corrupted to look like 少 in the modern form.

Change in form

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

目 Meaning component

mù eye

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sjengX	[s]eŋʔ	inspect

說文解字

《說文》：“省，視也。从眉省，从屮。，古文从少，从囧。”

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)