泥塑 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

nísù

clay modeling

ní mud

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 尼 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

尼 Sound component

ní, nǐ Buddhist nun

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nej	C.nˤ[əj]	mud
	nejH	nˤər(ʔ)-s	impeded, obstructed (Lunyu)
Zhengzhang		niːl
		niːls
Unicode	nei
	nèi

說文解字

水。出北地郁郅北蠻中。从水尼聲。

Sources

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

sù sculpt, clay model, plastic

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 朔 represents the sound.

Components

朔 Sound component

shuò first day of lunar month

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	sŋaːɡs

Sources

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