Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | |
|---|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ɡaːɡ | |
| Unicode | hɑk |
說文解字
渴也。从水固聲。讀若狐貈之貈。
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Original meaning: beard
Originally a pictograph of a beard, now written as 耏. The current use as a conjunction is a phonetic loan.
Character Evolution
Component uses
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | nyi | nə | and, but |
說文解字
《說文》：“而，頰毛也。象毛之形。《周禮》曰：‘作其鱗之而。’”
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Simplified
Traditional
Components
Character Evolution
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| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | draek | lˤrak | marsh; moisture |
說文解字
《說文》：“澤，光潤也。从水，睪聲。”
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Traditional
Depicts catching fish (魚) from the water (氵). In many ancient forms, it was mostly written either as two hands holding a net catching a fish or four fish swimming in a stream of water.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | ngjo | [ŋ](r)a | to fish |
說文解字
《說文》：“，捕魚也。从，从水。漁，篆文从魚。”
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