澳洲野犬 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

àozhōuyěquǎn

dingo

ào, aò, yù inlet

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

奧 Sound component

mysterious

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	'awH	ʔˤuk-s	bay, cove

說文解字

《說文》：“澳，隈厓也。其內曰澳，其外曰隈。从水，奧聲。”

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)

zhōu continent

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

州 Sound Meaning component

zhōu state, province, islet

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyuw	tu	islet

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart

yě field, wilderness

Phonosemantic compound. 田 and 土 represent the meaning, and 予 represents the sound.

Components

田 Meaning component

tián field

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

予 Sound component

yǔ give

Change in sound

野 and 予 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
野 *lAʔ
予 *laʔ

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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

Seal form — Seal Qin 221-206 BC

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yaeX	lAʔ	open country

說文解字

《說文》：“野，郊外也。从里，予聲。，古文野，从里省，从林。”

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)

quǎn dog

Pictograph of a dog.

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 Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

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

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Meaning (8 of 15 verified)

状默哭臭莽倏吠類猷獒肰猋獎尨狀

Iconic (10)

突献伏狱戾獄獸犮猒獻

Unknown (2)

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Deleted (1)

Simplified (1)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khwenX	[k]ʷʰˤ[e][n]ʔ	dog

說文解字

《說文》：“犬，狗之有縣蹏者也。象形。孔子曰：‘視犬之字如畫狗也。’”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.750
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)