烤炙 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kǎozhì

beat down

kǎo bake, roast

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

Components

火 Meaning component

huǒ fire

考 Sound component

kǎo examine

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	kʰluːʔ

Sources

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

zhì roast

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

Components

火 Meaning component

huǒ fire

月 Sound component

yuè, yue moon

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyæH	tAk-s	roast, broil
	tsyek	tAk	roast, broil
Zhengzhang		tjaːɡs
		tjaːɡ
Unicode	jiɛk

說文解字

炮肉也。从肉在火上。凡炙之屬皆从炙。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)