tán​tuǐ

Tantui

tán deep pool

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
tán, qín, yǎn reach to

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdom[l]ˤ[ə]mdeep, pond
Zhengzhangl'ɯːm
lɯmʔ
Unicodedhom

說文解字

水。出武陵鐔成玉山,東入鬱林。从水覃聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

tuǐ legs

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 退 represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

退
退 Sound component
tuì retreat

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangn̥ʰuːlʔ

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang