毗耶娑
Pí​yē​suō

Vyasa

毗 pí help

Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 比 represents the sound. Simplified form of 毘.

Components

田
田 Meaning component
tián field
比
比 Sound component
bǐ to compare

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartbjij[b]ijassist; boastful
Zhengzhangbi

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

耶 yé, yē, ye ye (sound)

Corruption of 邪, with the 牙 component replaced with 耳.

Components

牙
牙 Sound component
yá tooth

Corrupted to 耳.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 牙 than it was in ancient scripts.
⻏
⻏ Meaning component
yì city

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

椰揶倻爺

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhanglaː
Unicodeia

Sources

Character origin
Wiktionary
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

娑 suō, suǒ, suò dance

Components

沙
沙 Sound component
shā sand
女
女 Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsa[s]ˤa[j]婆娑 saunter, dance
Zhengzhangsaːl
saːlʔ
Unicodesɑ

說文解字

舞也。从女沙聲。《詩》曰：“市也媻娑。”

Sources

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