活化 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

huóhuà

activation

huó, huo live

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

𠯑 Sound component

guā block the mouth

Later reanalyzed as the visually similar character 舌.

Change in form

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

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

阔闊

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	hwat	[g]ʷˤat	to live

說文解字

《說文》：“，水流聲。从水，聲。，或从。”

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)

huà change

Pictograph of a right-side up person (亻) and an upside-down person (𠤎), depicting the meaning "turn around" or "transform".

Components

亻 Iconic component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

𠤎 Iconic component

huà upside-down person

Depicts an upside-down person.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

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Component uses

Sound (4 of 7 verified)

花华货靴讹貨訛

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xwaeH	qʷʰˤ<r>aj-s	transform

說文解字

《說文》：“化，教行也。从，从人，亦聲。”

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)

活 huó, huo live

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

化 huà change

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (4 of 7 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

huó, huo live

huà change