添堵
tiān​dǔ

annoy

添 tiān append

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

忝
忝 Sound component
tiǎn disgraced

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttheml̥ ˤ[i]madd
Zhengzhangtʰiːm
Unicodetem

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang

堵 dǔ block up

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

Components

土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth
者
者 Sound component
zhě one who...
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttuXtˤaʔ a row or set of bells or musical stones
tuXtˤaʔ measure of length of wall

說文解字

《說文》：“堵，垣也。五版為一堵。从土，者聲。，籀文从。”

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)