gāo​wán​zāi​tóng

testosterone

gāo, hào testicle

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkuː

Sources

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Zhengzhang Shangfang

wán small round object

Derived from . Pictograph of a dying animal lying down. The meaning later shifted to "small round object", "pellet" and "pill".

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwan[ɢ]ʷˤar pellet; ball
hwanɦʷˤar (< *[ɢ]ʷˤar)烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)

說文解字

《說文》:“丸,圜,傾側而轉者。从反仄。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.726劉釗《古文字構形學》p.128
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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
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Academia Sinica

zāi, zī container

Pictograph of a container made out of bamboo. Variant of 𠙹.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 7 verified)

Iconic (1)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsrɯ

說文解字

《說文》:“甾,東楚名缶曰甾。象形。,古文。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.878
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Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
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Academia Sinica

tóng, dòng, chóng ketones

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
yǒu wine
Sound component
tóng, tong, tòng together

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdoːŋ
doːŋʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang