Shěn Kuò

Shen Kuo

shěn, chén, tán sink

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

is a component form of .

Sound component
yín, yóu to move on

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdrimC.[d]r[ə]m
(~ *m-lr[ə]m)
sink (v.t.)
drim[d]r[ə]m
(~ *m-lr[ə]m)
sink (v.i.)
drim[d]r[ə]m sacrifice in which gifts are sunk in water
drimH[d]r[ə]m-s sacrifice in which gifts are sunk in water
syimX[s.t][ə]mʔ (name of a state)

說文解字

《說文》:“沈,陵上滈水也。从水,冘聲。一曰濁黕也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

kuò include, enclose

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 𠯑 represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

is a component form of .

𠯑
𠯑 Sound component
guā block the mouth

Modern form looks like .

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

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːd

說文解字

《說文》:“,絜也。从手,聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica