旱涝保收
hàn​lào​bǎo​shōu

stable harvest

旱 hàn drought

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

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
干
干 Sound component
gàn, gān interfere

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 7 verified)

悍捍焊趕稈銲桿

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

稈

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthanX[g]ˤa[r]ʔ dry, drought

說文解字

《說文》：“旱，不雨也。从日，干聲。”

Sources

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涝 lào, láo inundate Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 劳 represents the sound. Simplified form of 澇.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

劳
劳 Sound component
láo labor

Sources

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Unicode

保 bǎo protect

Depicts a person carrying a child on their back.

Components

亻
亻 Iconic component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

子
子 Iconic component
zi, zǐ child

Depicts a child being carried.

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

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Spring and Autumn ~600 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 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 Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
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
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 5 verified)

堡褒葆煲褓

Meaning (1 of 2 verified)

堡褓

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpawXpˤuʔ protect

說文解字

《說文》：“保，養也。从人，从省。，古文孚。，古文保。，古文保不省。”

Sources

Character origin
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

收 shōu gather together

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 丩 represents the sound.

Components

丩
丩 Sound component
jiū join
攵
攵 Meaning component
pū tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyuws-kiw collect; harvest

說文解字

《說文》：“收，捕也。从攴，丩聲。”

Sources

Character origin
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

澇 inundate Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 勞 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

勞
勞 Sound component
láo labor

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangraːwʔ
raːws

說文解字

水。出扶風鄠，北入渭。从水勞聲。

Sources

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Unicode
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Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)