碎末 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

suìmò

bits

suì break

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 卒 represents the sound.

Components

石 Meaning component

shí stone

卒 Sound component

zú, cù, cuì soldier, to finish

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	swojH	[s-tsʰ]ˤu[t]-s	break
Zhengzhang		suːds
Unicode	suə̀i

說文解字

䃺也。从石卒聲。

Sources

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

mò end

Similar to 木 (tree), with an extra line at the top. Depicts the top end of a tree.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC

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

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 5 verified)

抹沫袜茉秣

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mat	mˤat	end of a branch

說文解字

《說文》：“末，木上曰末。从木，一在其上。”

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)