睾甾酮
gāo​zāi​tóng

testosterone

睾 gāo, hào testicle

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkuː

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

甾 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)

淄辎缁锱鲻鯔錙

Iconic (1)

巢

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

缁

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

酮 tóng, dòng, chóng ketones

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 同 represents the sound.

Components

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdoːŋ
doːŋʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang