横生枝节 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

héng across Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 黄 represents the sound. Simplified form of 橫.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

黄 Sound component

huáng yellow

說文解字

闌木也。从木黃聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

shēng, sheng life

Pictograph of a sprout (屮) emerging from the ground (一).

Components

屮 Iconic component

chè, cǎo sprout

Depicts a sprout growing.

Change in form

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

一 Iconic component

yī one

Used here to depict the ground.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sraeng	sreŋ (MC srj- > sr-; or *s.reŋ ?)	bear, be born; live
	sraeng	sreŋ	fresh, raw
	srjaeng	sreŋ (or *s.reŋ ?)	bear, be born; live

說文解字

《說文》：“生，進也。象艸木生出土上。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.506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)

zhī branches

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

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

支 Sound component

zhī support, hold up

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsye	ke	branch (of tree)

說文解字

《說文》：“枝，木別生條也。从木，支聲。”

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)

jié holiday Simplified

Original meaning: bamboo joint

Simplified form of 節. Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 即 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bamboo joint". Later used as a measure word for segments and divisions of time.

Components

艹 Meaning Simplified component

cao, cǎo grass

Shorthand for the ⺮ component in the traditional character 節.

卩 Sound Simplified component

jié person kneeling

Shorthand for the 即 component in the traditional character 節.

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

栉

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

栉

Sources

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

héng across Traditional

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

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

黃 Sound component

huáng yellow

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hwæng	C.ɡʷˤraŋ	crosswise; horizontal
Zhengzhang		ɡʷraːŋ
		ɡʷraːŋs
		kʷaːŋ
Unicode	huæng
	guɑ̀ng

Sources

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

jié holiday Traditional

Original meaning: bamboo joint

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 即 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bamboo joint". Later used as a measure word for segments and divisions of time.