清炖
qīng​dùn

clear-stew

清 qīng clear

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

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

青
青 Sound component
qīng green or blue

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
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 Han 202 BC-9 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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshjengtsʰeŋ clear (adj.)

說文解字

《說文》：“清，朖也，澂水之皃。从水，青聲。”

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)

炖 dùn, tún heat with fire Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 屯 represents the sound. Simplified form of 燉.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
屯
屯 Sound component
tún, zhūn village

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

燉 dùn, tún, dūn heat with fire Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 敦 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
敦
敦 Sound component
dūn esteem

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtuːns
tʰuːn
duːn

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang