朱允炆
Zhū Yǔn​wén

Zhu Yunwen

朱 zhū, shū red pigment

Original meaning: tree trunk

Pictograph of a tree (木) with a mark indicating where the trunk is. Based on the original meaning "tree trunk", now written as 株. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

木
木 Iconic component
mù tree
◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

mark indicating the location of the tree's trunk


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 14 verified)

殊珠株蛛诛铢侏茱洙姝邾硃銖誅

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

硃

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsyuto dwarf
tsyuto red

說文解字

《說文》：“朱，赤心木，松柏屬。从木，一在其中。”

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)

允 yǔn allow, permit

Phonosemantic compound. 㠯 represents the sound and 人 represents the meaning.

Components

㠯
㠯 Sound component
yǐ by means of
Change in sound
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 㠯 than it was in ancient scripts.
人
人 Meaning component
rén, ren person

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 Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
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
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

吮狁沇

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartywinX[l]u[r]ʔ truly

說文解字

《說文》：“允，信也。从儿，聲。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.688
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

炆 wén (Cant.) to simmer

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire

fire

文
文 Sound component
wén writing

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode