渴望 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kěwàng HSK5

yearn

kě thirsty

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

曷 Sound component

hé, è, hè why? what? where?

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khat	Nə-[k]ʰˤat	thirsty

說文解字

《說文》：“渴，盡也。从水，曷聲。”

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)

wàng, wang to look at

Pictograph of a person standing up (𡈼) and gazing at the moon (月). 亡 is a sound component.

Components

亡 Sound component

wáng death

月 Iconic component

yuè, yue moon

𡈼 Iconic component

tǐng, tíng, zhēng stand upright

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjang	maŋ	look at from a distance
	mjangH	maŋ-s	look at from a distance

說文解字

《說文》：“望，出亡在外，望其還也。从亡，朢省聲。”

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)

渴 kě thirsty

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

望 wàng, wang to look at

Components

Character Evolution

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kě thirsty

wàng, wang to look at