爆粗 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

bàocū

swear

bào crackle

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

Components

火 Meaning component

huǒ fire

暴 Sound component

bào violent

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	paewH	pˤrawk-s	explode (not pre-Qín)

說文解字

《說文》：“爆，灼也。从火，暴聲。”

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)

cū rough, coarse

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.

Components

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

且 Sound component

qiě moreover

Change in sound

粗 and 且 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
粗 tshu
且 tsjo

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tshu	Nə-s.r̥ˤa	coarse, thick (as hair)

說文解字

《說文》：“粗，疏也。从米，且聲。”

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)

爆 bào crackle

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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粗 cū rough, coarse

Components

Character Evolution

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bào crackle

cū rough, coarse