暴戾恣睢
bào​lì​zì​suī

tyrannical

暴 bào violent

Original meaning: expose to sun

Depicts two hands (共) laying out rice (米) to dry under the sun (日), representing the meaning "expose to sun", now written as 曝. The meaning later shifted to "expose", "injure", and "violent".

Components

日
日 Iconic component
rì sun
共
共 Iconic component
gòng together with

Depicts two hands.

米
米 Iconic component
mǐ rice
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 米 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
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 3 verified)

爆瀑曝

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

瀑

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbawH[b]ˤawk-s violent
buwkm-pˤawk expose to sun

說文解字

《說文》：“曓，疾有所趣也。从日出廾之。”

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)

戾 lì bend, violate, transgress

Depicts a dog (犬) bending its body to get out from under a door (户).

Components

户
户 Iconic component
hù, hu door
犬
犬 Iconic component
quǎn dog

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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 3 verified)

唳捩淚

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartlejH[r]ˤe[t]-s transgress

說文解字

《說文》：“戾，曲也。从犬出戶下。戾者，身曲戾也。”

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)

恣 zì indulge oneself

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 次 represents the sound.

Components

心
心 Meaning component
xīn, xin heart
次
次 Sound component
cì second, next

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

懿

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsijHtsi[t]-sunrestrained, license
Zhengzhangʔslis
Unicodetzì

說文解字

縱也。从心次聲。

Sources

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

睢 suī, huī, wěi gaze at

Components

目
目 Meaning component
mù eye

eye

隹
隹 Sound component
zhuī, cuī, wéi bird

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

濉

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰʷel
sqʰʷil
qʰʷi
qʰʷils
Unicodexiuɛ
xyui

說文解字

仰目也。从目隹聲。

Sources

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