盲杖 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

mángzhàng

white cane

máng blind

Losing 亡 one's sight 目; 亡 also provides the pronunciation

Components

亡 Sound Meaning component

wáng death

目 Meaning component

mù eye

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mæng	mˤ<r>aŋ	blind
Zhengzhang		mraːŋ

說文解字

目無牟子。从目亡聲。

Sources

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

zhàng cane

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

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

丈 Sound component

zhàng unit of length ~ 3 meters

Character Evolution

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
Zhengzhang		daŋʔ
Unicode	dhjiɑ̌ng

說文解字

持也。从木丈聲。

Sources

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