淡灰眉岩鹀 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

dànhuīméiyánwú

rock bunting

dàn weak, bland, watery

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

炎 Sound component

yán flame

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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	damX	[l]ˤamʔ	insipid

說文解字

《說文》：“淡，薄味也。从水，炎聲。”

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)

huī ashes

Depicts a hand (又) picking ashes left over from a fire (火).

Components

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

火 Iconic component

huǒ fire

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 5 verified)

恢盔诙咴詼

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xwoj	m̥ˤə	ashes

說文解字

《說文》：“灰，死火餘也。从火，从又。又，手也。火既滅，可以執持。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫李学勤《字源》p.890
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

méi eyebrows

Depicts hair above the eye (目).

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts eyebrows.

目 Iconic component

mù eye

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 Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 8 verified)

履媚湄嵋楣镅鹛猸

Iconic (1)

Remnant (1)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mij	mr[ə][r]	eyebrow

說文解字

《說文》：“眉，目上毛也。从目，象眉之形，上象頟理也。”

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)

yán cliff

The rocks 石 that make up a mountain 山

Components

山 Meaning component

shān mountain

石 Meaning component

shí stone

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ngæm	[ŋ]ˤr[a]m (< uvular?)	rocky, lofty
Zhengzhang		ŋraːm
Unicode	ngam

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang

wú Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

鵐 Traditional

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ma

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang