爬竿 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

págān

pole-climbing

pá crawl, climb

Phonosemantic compound. 爪 represents the meaning and 巴 represents the sound.

Components

爪 Meaning component

zhǎo, zhuǎ hand, claw

巴 Sound component

ba, bā to wish

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bae	[b]ˤra	climb on all fours

Sources

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

gān bamboo pole

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound.

Components

⺮ Meaning component

zhú bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

干 Sound component

gàn, gān interfere

Character Evolution

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 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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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kan	kˤar	pole, rod
Zhengzhang		kaːn
Unicode	gɑn

說文解字

竹梃也。从竹干聲。

Sources

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