枕套 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zhěntào

pillowcase

zhěn pillow

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 冘 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

冘 Sound component

yín, yóu to move on

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 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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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyimX	[t.k][ə]mʔ	pillow
	tsyimH	[t.k][ə]mʔ-s	use as a pillow
Zhengzhang		l'um
		ʔljumʔ
		ʔljums
Unicode	jǐm

說文解字

臥所薦首者。从木冘聲。

Sources

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

tào cover

A cover has to be big (大) and long (镸) enough to wrap around what it is covering.

Components

大 Meaning component

dà, dài big

镸 Meaning component

cháng long

镸 is a component form of 長.

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	tʰaːw
	tʰaːws

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang