枯寂 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kūjì

desolate

kū dried out

tree 木; 古 provides the pronunciation

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

古 Sound component

gǔ old

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 Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khu	kʰˤa	withered, dried up

說文解字

《說文》：“枯，槀也。从木，古聲。《夏書》曰‘唯箘輅枯’。木名也。”

Sources

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

jì still

Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 叔 represents the sound.

Components

宀 Meaning component

mián roof

叔 Sound component

shū, shu uncle

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dzek	s-[d]ˤiwk	quiet
Zhengzhang		zlɯːwɢ
Unicode	dzhek

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang