时段分析 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

shí time Simplified

Simplified form of 時.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì sun

寸 Simplified component

cùn, cun (hand), inch

Shorthand for the 寺 component in the traditional character 時.

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

鲥莳埘

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

duàn section

Original meaning: forge metal

Pictograph of a hand holding a forging hammer (殳) and hitting a stone (石). Based on the original meaning "forge", now written as 鍛. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

石 Iconic component

shí stone

Change in form

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

殳 Iconic component

shū weapon or tool

Here depicts a hand holding a hammer.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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Component uses

Sound (2 of 6 verified)

锻缎椴煅鍛緞

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	twanH	tˤo[n]-s	hammer

說文解字

《說文》：“段，椎物也。从殳，耑省聲。”

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)

fēn, fèn, fen divide

Depicts a knife (刀) being used to cut two things apart (八).

Components

八 Sound Iconic component

bā eight

Depicts two things being separated.

Change in sound

分 and 八 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
分 *pə[n]
八 *pˤret

刀 Iconic component

dāo knife

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (6 of 23 verified)

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Meaning (0 of 6 verified)

贫颁岔掰貧頒

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjun	pə[n]	divide
	bjunH	[m]-pə[n]-s	alloted duty

說文解字

《說文》：“分，別也。从八，从刀，刀以分別物也。”

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)

xī to separate

Depicts chopping wood (木) with an axe (斤).

Components

木 Iconic component

mù tree

斤 Iconic component

jīn axe

Character Evolution

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Sound (0 of 5 verified)

晰蜥皙淅菥

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sek	[s]ˤek	split (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“析，破木也。一曰折也。从木，从斤。”

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)

shí time Traditional

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

Components

日 Meaning component

rì sun

寺 Sound component

sì, shì temple

Character Evolution

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

蒔鰣

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzyi	[d]ə (~ *[d]əʔ)	time

說文解字

《說文》：“時，四時也。从日，寺聲。旹，古文時，从之、日。”

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

时 shí time Simplified

Components

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

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段 duàn section

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (2 of 6 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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分 fēn, fèn, fen divide

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (6 of 23 verified)

Meaning (0 of 6 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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析 xī to separate

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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時 shí time Traditional

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Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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shí time Simplified

duàn section

fēn, fèn, fen divide

xī to separate

shí time Traditional