甜橙 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tiánchéng

sweet orange

tián sweet

Depicts the tongue (舌) tasting something sweet (甘).

Components

舌 Meaning component

shé tongue

甘 Meaning component

gān sweetness

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	l'iːm

說文解字

《說文》：“甛，美也。从甘，从舌。舌，知甘者。”

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)

chéng, dèng orange

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 登 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

登 Sound component

dēng rise

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	drɛng	[d]ˤrəŋ	citrus tree (Shuōwén)
Zhengzhang		tɯːŋs
		rdɯːŋ
Unicode	djhɛng

說文解字

橘屬。从木登聲。

Sources

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