瀋
shěnShěn

sink

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

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

審
審 Sound component
shěn examine

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyhimXtʰ[ə]mʔliquid
Zhengzhangl̥ʰjɯmʔ

說文解字

汁也。从水審聲。《春秋傳》曰：“猶拾瀋。”

Sources

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Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

沈 shěn, chén, tán sink Simplified

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

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

冘
冘 Sound component
yín, yóu to move on

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 Early Western Zhou ~1000 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 Spring and Autumn 771-476 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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdrimC.[d]r[ə]m
(~ *m-lr[ə]m)		sink (v.t.)
drim[d]r[ə]m
(~ *m-lr[ə]m)		sink (v.i.)
drim[d]r[ə]m sacrifice in which gifts are sunk in water
drimH[d]r[ə]m-s sacrifice in which gifts are sunk in water
syimX[s.t][ə]mʔ (name of a state)

說文解字

《說文》：“沈，陵上滈水也。从水，冘聲。一曰濁黕也。”

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)

渖 shěn, chèn, pán old variant of 瀋|沈[shěn] Simplified

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

审
审 Sound component
shěn examine

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode