氟骨症
fú​gǔ​zhèng

skeletal fluorosis

氟 fú fluorine

Phonosemantic compound. 气 represents the meaning and 弗 represents the sound.

Components

气
气 Meaning component
qì, qi air
弗
弗 Sound component
fú not

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

骨 gǔ, gú bone

Pictograph of a bone (冎) with a muscle (肉) attached to it.

Components

冎
冎 SoundIconic component
guǎ bone
肉
肉 Iconic component
ròu meat

Deceptively similar but unrelated to 月.

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

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (4 of 21 verified)

骸髓骼骷髅骰體骶髁髋髂骱髌髑髀骺骯髒髕髏髖

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

滑猾鹘鶻

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwotkˤut bone

說文解字

《說文》：“骨，肉之覈也。从冎，有肉。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.336
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

症 zhèng disease

Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 正 represents the sound. Simplified form of 癥.

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick
正
正 Sound component
zhèng, zheng, zhēng correct

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtjɯŋs

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang