短袜 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

duǎnwà

sock

duǎn short

Phonosemantic compound. 矢 represents the meaning and 豆 represents the sound.

Components

矢 Meaning component

shǐ arrow

豆 Sound component

dòu bean

Change in sound

短 and 豆 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
短 *tˤorʔ
豆 *[N.t]ˤo-s

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	twanX	tˤorʔ	short

說文解字

《說文》：“短，有所長短，以矢為正。从矢，豆聲。”

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)

wà socks Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 末 represents the sound. Simplified form of 襪.

Components

衤 Meaning component

yī clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

末 Sound component

mò end

Change in sound

袜 and 末 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
袜 maːd
末 *mˤat

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	maːd

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

wà socks Traditional

Components

衤 Meaning component

yī clothes

clothes

蔑 Sound component

miè disdain

Change in sound

襪 and 蔑 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
襪 miæt
蔑 met

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		mad
Unicode	miæt

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

短 duǎn short

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

袜 wà socks Simplified

Components

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

襪 wà socks Traditional

Components

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

duǎn short

wà socks Simplified

wà socks Traditional