榜笞 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

péngchī

flog

bǎng placard

A sign posted 旁 on a tree 木; 旁 also provides the pronunciation

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

旁 Sound Meaning component

páng side

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pængH	pˤraŋ-s	oar
Zhengzhang		paːŋʔ
		praːŋs
		braːŋ
Unicode	bæ̀ng
	bɑ̀ng

說文解字

所以輔弓弩。从木㫄聲。

Sources

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

chī bamboo rod used for beatings

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 台 represents the sound.

Components

⺮ Meaning component

zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

台 Sound component

tái platform

Character Evolution

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
Zhengzhang		l̥ʰɯ
Unicode	djhiɛ

說文解字

擊也。从竹台聲。

Sources

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