杂草 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zá mixed, various Simplified

Simplified form of 雜. Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 集 represents the sound.

Components

九 Simplified component

jiǔ nine

Shorthand for the 衣 component in the traditional character 雜.

集 Remnant component

jí gather, collect

Shorthand for the 集 component in the traditional character 雜.

Component uses

Sound (1)

染

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

cǎo grass

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 早 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Sound Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

早 Sound component

zǎo early

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tshawX	[tsʰ]ˤuʔ	grass, plants
	tshawX	[tsʰ]ˤuʔ	rough, coarse

說文解字

草斗，櫟實也。一曰象斗子。从艸早聲。

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)

zá mixed, various Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 集 represents the sound.

Components

衣 Meaning component

yī clothes

Change in form

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

集 Sound component

jí gather, collect

Change in sound

雜 and 集 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
雜 *[dz]ˤ[u]p
集 *[dz][u]p

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzop	[dz]ˤ[u]p	mixed

說文解字

《說文》：“雜，五彩相會。从衣，集聲。”

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)

杂 zá mixed, various Simplified

Components

Component uses

Sound (1)

Sources

草 cǎo grass

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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雜 zá mixed, various Traditional

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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zá mixed, various Simplified

cǎo grass

zá mixed, various Traditional