男性厌恶 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

nán male

Traditionally males (男) were the people who plowed (力) the fields (田).

Components

田 Meaning component

tián field

力 Meaning component

lì, li power

Depicts a plow.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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

Clerical form — Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Meaning (0 of 4 verified)

舅甥嬲虜

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nom	nˤ[ə]m	man, male

說文解字

《說文》：“男，丈夫也。从田，从力，言男用力於田也。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.918-919
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

xìng, xing nature

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound.

Components

忄 Meaning component

xin, xīn heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

生 Sound component

shēng, sheng life

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	sjengH	seŋ-s	nature

說文解字

《說文》：“性，人之陽气性善者也。从心，生聲。”

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)

yàn dislike Simplified

Simplified form of 厭. Phonosemantic compound. 厂 represents the meaning and 猒 represents the sound.

Components

厂 Meaning component

chǎng cliff, (roof)

The outer walls of buildings in premodern China were filled with earth that was packed down (壓). This is one of the cases where the forms of 广 (building) and 厂 (cliff) were used interchangeably to mean the same thing.

犬 Simplified component

quǎn dog

Shorthand for the sound component 猒 in the traditional character 厭.

Component uses

Sound (1 of 5 verified)

压魇靥餍恹

Simplified (1)

压

Sources

Character origin: 李学勤《字源》p.832
Readings & variants: Unicode

è, wù evil Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 亚 represents the sound. Simplified form of 惡.

Components

亚 Sound component

yà Asia, sub-

Change in sound

恶 and 亚 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
恶 *ʔˤak-s
亚 *ʔˤrak-s

心 Meaning component

xīn, xin heart

Component uses

Sound (1)

𫫇

Meaning (1)

𫫇

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

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

yàn dislike Traditional

Original meaning: to push down on

Original form of 壓. Phonosemantic compound. 厂 represents the meaning and 猒 represents the sound.

Components

厂 Meaning component

chǎng cliff, (roof)

The outer walls of buildings in premodern China were filled with earth that was packed down (壓). This is one of the cases where the forms of 广 (building) and 厂 (cliff) were used interchangeably to mean the same thing.

Change in meaning

厂 hints at the original meaning of 厭, "to push down on", which is no longer the most common meaning of 厭 in modern Mandarin.