暗渠 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

ànqú

culvert

àn dark

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

Components

日 Meaning component

rì sun

音 Sound component

yīn sound

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'omH	qˤum-s	dark

說文解字

《說文》：“暗，日無光也。从日，音聲。”

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)

qú ditch

A ditch 洰 made of wood 木; 洰 also provides the pronunciation

Components

洰 Sound Meaning component

jù

木 Meaning component

mù tree

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC

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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gjo	[ɡ](r)a	canal
Zhengzhang		ɡa
Unicode	ghio

說文解字

水所居。从水，榘省聲。

Sources

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