珍珠港 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zhēn precious

Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 㐱 represents the sound.

Components

𤣩 Meaning component

yù jade

jade

㐱 Sound component

zhěn thick hair

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	trin	trə[n]	precious thing

說文解字

《說文》：“珍，寶也。从玉，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)

zhū precious stone

Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 朱 represents the sound.

Components

王 Meaning component

wáng king

朱 Sound component

zhū, shū red pigment

Character Evolution

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		tjo
Unicode	jio

說文解字

蚌之陰精。从玉朱聲。《春秋國語》曰：“珠以禦火灾”是也。

Sources

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

gǎng port, harbor

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

巷 Sound component

xiàng alley

Character Evolution

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	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	kroːŋʔ
	ɡloːŋs

說文解字

《說文》：“，水派也，从水聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

珍 zhēn precious

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珠 zhū precious stone

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港 gǎng port, harbor

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zhēn precious

zhū precious stone

gǎng port, harbor