气不忿儿 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

qì, qi air Simplified

Depicts a gust of air.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

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Meaning (4 of 23 verified)

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Sound (4)

汽忾饩氣

Iconic (1)

氣

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khj+jH	C.qʰəp-s	(inhaled thing:) breath, air, vapors

說文解字

《說文》：“气，雲气也。象形。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.58-59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)

bù, bu no

Original meaning: sepals

Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The modern meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjuw	pə	not
	pjuw	pə	不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)

說文解字

《說文》：“不，鳥飛上翔不下來也。从一，一猶天也。象形。”

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)

fèn get angry

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 分 represents the sound.

Components

心 Meaning component

xīn, xin heart

分 Sound component

fēn, fèn, fen divide

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		pʰɯnʔ
		pʰɯns
		bɯnʔ
Unicode	piə̀n
	piə̌n

說文解字

悁也。从心分聲。

Sources

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

r, ér child Simplified

Simplified form of 兒. Variant form of 人, a pictograph of a human.

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党

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

禿

說文解字

《說文》：“儿，仁人也。古文奇字人也。象形。孔子曰：在人下，故詰屈。”

Sources

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

qì, qi air Traditional

Original meaning: gift of grain

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 气 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "gift of grain", now written as 餼. The current meaning "air" is a phonetic loan.

Components

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

气 Sound Iconic component

qì, qi air

Depicts a gust of air.

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Sound (2 of 3 verified)

餼愾滊

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khj+jH	C.qʰəp-s	cloudy vapors
	xj+jH	qʰət-s	to present food

說文解字

《說文》：“氣，饋客芻米也。从米，气聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘齊人來氣諸矦。’，氣或从既；餼，氣或从食。”

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)

r, ér son Traditional

Pictograph of a child (人) with an opening in the top of its head (囟). Represents the soft spot (fontanel) at the top of young infant heads. The 囟 component is written like 臼.