泥巴 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

níba

mud

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

Regular Modern

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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)

ba, bā to wish

Depicts a person grabbing something with their hand. Original form of 把. In modern Chinese this character is usually used only for its sound.

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

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

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (4 of 18 verified)

把吧爸爬疤芭靶琶笆耙粑杷鲃钯岜鈀䰾皅

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pae	pˤra	snake
	pae	pˤra	[place name]

說文解字

《說文》：“巴，蟲也。或曰食象蛇。象形。”

Sources

Character origin: 黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.1637
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)