桦甸

桦 huà type of birch Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 华 represents the sound. Simplified form of 樺.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
华
华 Sound component
huá magnificent

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

甸 diān suburbs of capital

Same in origin to 佃. Depicts a person (勹) working in the fields (田). 田 also represents the sound. The meaning later shifted to "crops" and "suburbs of capital".

Components

勹
勹 Iconic component
bāo wrap

Depicts a person.

田
田 SoundIconic component
tián field

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdenHlˤiŋ-s open space outside city

說文解字

《說文》：“甸，天子五百里地。从田，包省。”

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)

樺 huà type of birch Traditional

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

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
華
華 Sound component
huá magnificent

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡʷraː
ɡʷraːs

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang