照顾 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zhào shine

Phonosemantic compound. 灬 represents the meaning and 昭 represents the sound.

Components

灬 Meaning component

biāo, huǒ fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

昭 Sound Meaning component

zhāo, zhào bright

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyewH	taw-s	shine on

說文解字

《說文》：“照，明也。从火，昭聲。”

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)

gù look back, look after Simplified

Simplified form of 顧. Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 雇 represents the sound.

Components

厄 Simplified component

è adversity, distress

Shorthand for the 雇 component in the traditional character 顧.

页 Meaning component

yè page

Depicts a head.

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

gù look back, look after Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 雇 represents the sound.

Components

雇 Sound component

gù employ

頁 Meaning component

yè (head), page

Depicts a head.

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kuH	[k]ʷˤaʔ-s (~ *[k]ʷˤaʔ)	look around

說文解字

《說文》：“顧，還視也。从頁，雇聲。”

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)

照 zhào shine

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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顾 gù look back, look after Simplified

Components

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顧 gù look back, look after Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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zhào shine

gù look back, look after Simplified

gù look back, look after Traditional